San Angelo Castle and Bridge

Rome day 3

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October 17th 2012
Wednesday Oct 17th Another early day to get picked up at the hotel for a bus tour to Naples and Pompeii. We wanted to see Pompeii but in retrospect we should have taken the train and did the tour ourselves. Too much time was spent dropping other people off for Capri and a driving tour around Naples and only 2 hours at Pompeii. Pompeii was interesting and there was more there than any of us ... 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