Ahhh... Venice

Venice

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March 13th 2007
Oct. 28 - 31, 2006 We weren’t sure whether we would go to Venice. Neither one of us had a burning desire to go but we felt like maybe we should check it out before we left Italy. If we had decided to move west from Italy we probably would have skipped it but once we decided to move east a visit to Venice made sense. While in Florence during our second visit we had free internet in our hotel ... 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