Hehe - we are in a gondola!

Murano and Venice secrets tour

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June 8th 2013
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384Off the boat early and got a porter to help us get our luggage back to Hotel Serrenissima. Caught the ferry to Murano, and went looking for THE Murano glass factory. Well, there are over 300 of them. We saw glass blowing demo, wandered around the island (Derek wandered off and got lost) had lunch, looked at a few more glass shops and caught the ferry back to Venice.We took ... 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