The entrance to Pompei

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August 29th 2007
I stayed in a little suburb of Naples called Portici for 3 days. It was a cute little town between Naples and Sorrento with no McDonalds and I was surrounded by Italians, not tourists. It was wonderful! I felt like I was really in an Italian town. The first day I went to Pompei. Pompei was destroyed by a catastrophic volcanic explosion in 79 A.D. The top half of Mt. Vesuvius blew straight off and ... 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

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