Thursday 03 April 2014 Italian police have arrested 24 “separatists,” including an organizer of the online Veneto independence referendum. Police suspect them of plotting to take over Venice’s iconic St. Mark’s Square with a bulldozer which they… Read More ›
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Venice: 89% vote for independece from Italy
Sunday, 23 March 2014 Over 89 percent of residents in Italy’s Veneto region have voted in an unofficial referendum in favor of independence from the rest of the country as Venetians seek to restore the glory of the old days… Read More ›
Venice wants to secede from Italy
Sunday, 16 March 2014 Voting begins Sunday on a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic. La Serenissima — or… Read More ›
Mass rally in Venice to call for independence from Italy
Two centuries after Napoleonic forces snuffed out the 1,000-year Venetian Republic, Venetians are once again aspiring to become an independent state. Activists dream of carving out a new country in north-eastern Italy Photo: Alamy By Nick Squires, Rome 1:38PM BST… Read More ›