Pompeii

Day 12 - Monday 26th December

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December 26th 2005
A visit to Pompeii was the highlight of our day on route from Rome to Sorrento. Our two hour guided walking tour touched on only a small portion of the ruins of this 160 acre site. The city ruins were far more extensive and better preserved than any of us had anticipated. We saw shops, houses, mosaics, frescoes, pottery, temples and bodies all surprisingly well preserved. Today we got to samp ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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