Murano II

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March 18th 2007
We started our second full day in Venice with another continental breakfast on the terrace, and then we headed of to Venice determined to find the Rialto Bridge. Since we had gotten lost the day before when trying to find it on foot, we thought that we would take a waterbus directly there, but after the trip from Murano to Venice, we decided we wanted to walk for a while rather than transfer dire ... 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