Mount Vesuvius

Sorrento and first day in Rome

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May 31st 2008
Thursday, May 29 Sorrento/Pompeii, Italy We decided to visit the ruins of Pompeii today rather than Isle of Capri. Our main interest on the Isle was the Blue Grotto but the tide was high in the morning hours and access to the grotto restricted. We walked to the train station in the center of Sorrento, about a mile, and caught the train towards Naples. The ride to Pompeii was about thirty ... 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