POSITANO

NAPLES

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June 27th 2013
27.6.2013 Docked in Naples this morning at 7.00a.m. Had arranged from home for our driver to pick 4 of us up from the port and take us down the Sorrento and Amalfi Coast. 8.00a.m. Salvatore arrived with his Mercedes and off we went - I think we died and went to heaven. First stop was Pompei - there as the gates opened at 8.30 and spent a couple of hours there, it is unbelievable this city - could ... read more

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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