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Paradiso Perduto

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September 29th 2017
We had some unfinished big ticket items from our last visit to Venice back in 2011. We started out early in order to try and avoid the crowds of tourists that frequent St Mark’s Square, and made our way by Vaporetto to San Marco, which is where the Doge’s Palace is located. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic of Venice. The first ... 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