Ruins of Roman villa

To Venice

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April 20th 2000
Geo: 45.4343, 12.3388Up and decent breakfast: eggs cooked to order! Day is cloudy but not rainy. We walked from the hotel to the center of old town. Climbed through the small castle - but the view from the top of the tower was fine. Walked out on promenade up to Villa Catullo. These are ruins of a villa from the 1st Century BCE which tradition assigns to Catalus. The ruins are very extensive and ... 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