Main Street Amalfi

By Land and By sea

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March 16th 2008
Two contrasting days in Campania (half way down Italy on the left hand side). First day is a trip down the Amalfi coast, which sounds vaguely Greek because it was Greek for such a long time. You have to keep reminding yourself that Italy has only been a single nation for a relatively short time and the regional differences were forged over a couple of thousand years so Neo Polis becomes Napoli ... 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