scenes around Venice

Da Vinci and the Capital of Desires

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August 24th 2014
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384need to shuffle some of the photos aroundRather slow moving day and finally we were ready to venture out for some more adventure. We decided to go to the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Scuola Grande di San Rocce. There was another exhibit of the same "Machines of Leonardo da Vinci at the San Barnabas church but we went to the one of the Scuola Grande. They had mu ... 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