Canale di San Marco

Welcome to Venice!

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September 26th 2005
After a very quick flight from London Standsted (1 hour and 40 minutes) we arrived at the Airport in Treviso which is about 16kms from the centre of Venice. Buses chartered by RyanAir take passengers onto the station in Venice where you can catch a train, bus or ferry to wherever it is you are going. Waiting at the wharf for the next ferry I briefly felt like I was back in Sydney. I guess it ... 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