View from Aragonese Castle

Ischia, Pompeii and Mt Vesuvis

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May 16th 2010
Sunday 16th to Thursday 20th May 2010 We left Rome at 11am for the 1 hour fast train to Naples. From Naples we then had to catch a ferry to Ischia. The boat trip takes about 1½ hours. The whether in Naples was pretty bad and we had been warned that we should take some seasickness tables as the seas were pretty rough. The winds were blowing at 40 knots and the seas wer ... 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