Caecilius' house

Pompeii continued (and Bari)

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May 18th 2009
I said that none of the ruins felt quite real in the last blog. Han agreed with me. When faced with the stone hard corpses of people permanently preserved in their pain, she said "I find it hard to see them as people." By this time we had plenty of company, coach after coach had spewed Americans into the city during the hours we had been exploring. Most of them walked around with cameras glued ... 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