View from the Amphitheatre

Segesta and Erice

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April 30th 2008
30 April 2008 We woke to the hottest day yet and decided to head inland to see a virtually complete but unfinished Greek Temple - rough unfluted columns and undecorated capitals - at Segesta. The position was inspiring and the temple magnificent. Given the temperature, we made use of the coach to take us up to the summit of another hill where the star attraction was a Greek limestone amphithea ... 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