A day of Island Hopping 18 When Disaster Struck

A day of Island Hopping

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August 11th 2009
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384This morning Jess, Bex, Michelle and I walked down the main street of Lido di Venezia and caught the vaporetto to the Dorsodoro area. Here we went into the church of Santa Maria della Salute and then had a small wander around the island. We then got the vaporetto to the other side of the canal. We walked through St Mark's Square and went to the vaporetto stop and had a g ... read more

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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