The Track up Vesuvius

Herculaneum, Vesuvius and the Isle of Capri

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November 5th 2011
It’s now Saturday evening, just after 5pm and we have just arrived back from a day at the ‘Isle of Capri’ and in Sorrento but more on that later. Yesterday, Friday, we had pre-booked with our driver, Giovanni, to take us to see the buried town of Herculaneum at Ercolano (near Naples) and then to take us up Mount Vesuvius as far as possible by road so we could climb to the top. We were picked ... 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