Celebratory arches

Pompeii

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April 14th 2008
14 April 2008 Yesterday was the London Marathon. Today we did our own marathon with an eight hour trip around the ruins of the Roman town of Pompeii which was engulfed by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. It is a huge and most interesting site with the forum, temples, theatres, an ampitheatre, a market, a brothel (the pictures of this are censored for the blog!), necropolis, baths, gardens and ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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