Espresso time

Venice

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April 30th 2014
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384After a fairly long trip from Pisa with a two hour layover in Florence, we finally arrived in Venice. During our couple of hours in Florence we stumbled upon the Santa Maria Novella church which was really beautiful and the only Americano I've been able to find so far. A woman asking me where I got it from at the train station made me feel like I'm not the only one w ... 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