Pompei Pizza

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March 14th 2008
Pompei is a wreck! I mean you thought Naples was a dump, Pompei is practically unihabitable. It is an amazing place, a bit of a mix between gosh wow ruins and well intentioned rebuilding without too much reference to the original blue prints. Getting to Pompei is a breeze, train from Sorrento and the ruins are right outside the station. There is something eerily familiar about the streetscape a ... 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