Frustrating day 02 City walls

Frustrating day

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July 28th 2006
Geo: 44.7766, 11.0998I was very impressed with myself this morning, I got up really early and caught the 7.05 vaporetto and the 7.58 train out of Venice. The train was slightly late, which meant I missed my connecting train and had to wait three hours at Monselice. The man at the train station was useless, he couldn't store my bag and didn't know if i could catch a bus instead. My only c ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Montagnana

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more