Pompeii

Naples and pizza to Rome and ancient

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August 1st 2007
Since the last blog from Greece we´ve seen a whole lot of Italy and I still want more! We arrived in the Italian port of Bari on 25 July and headed by bus over to the west coast to Naples. Once we discovered that the information people were unhelpful, we managed to figure out how to catch connecting suburban trains to reach our hostel. After something like 28 hours in transit - including sleeping ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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