Herculaneum

Herculaneum

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April 15th 2008
15 April 2008 A fifteen minute ride on the train from Pompeii at a modern town called Ercolano, is another Roman settlement destroyed in the 79 AD eruption, Herculaneum. That is where we visited today. It is smaller than Pompeii but is more homely and has more preserved features, particularly upper stories of buildings. Only a proportion has been excavated and some of the remainder is below th ... 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