Altar of Zeus

Italy...OOUUUTTT!

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November 16th 2007
After getting on the train to Rome, we decided that we wanted to stay in a smaller town so we caught a second train from Naples to the coastal town of Sorrento. It was a cool little town that was set on the cliffs overlooking the ocean and sort of reminded us of downtown La Jolla. It served as a great base for exploring the ruins of Pompeii. The ruins were a lot bigger than we had thought and, ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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