Looking from the outside in

From Rome to Pompeii and onto Sorrento

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August 18th 2005
We had some free time after our hard day of sight seeing so Art and I retired for lunch out the front of the Pantheon… so very harsh!!! The food was excellent, views extraordinary and the Italian water gave us some cold lemon chello as a gift!! We like it here!! In front of one of the buildings down town there is a statue of a horse and it is 12m long. When it was completed the workers had a ... read more

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Popes in their secular role ruled portions of the Italian peninsula for more than a thousand years until the mid 19th century, when many of the Papal States were seized by the newly united Kingdom of Italy. In 1870, the pope's holdings were further c... ... read more