Amalfi

Sorrento - Florence - Cinque Terre

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June 1st 2009
Sorrento and Amalfi We left you in Rome in the last blog, and from there we moved on to Sorrento. We caught an early train from Rome to Naples, until then we had found the trains to be pretty good but this one lowered the standards dramatically. It was late, dirty, smelly and all round pretty nasty. There was no air conditioning and no lights (as we discovered when we went into a long tu ... 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