Restored garden at Pompeii

The Grandma Diaries - Part Four. Italy

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June 29th 2009
I met up with Judy again to head off to Italy. We had three weeks together, travelling from the south to the north. Our first stop was Pompeii. We picked up a car in Naples and drove to Pompeii, eventually to find our hotel in the heart of the city. The ruins were as hot as vesuvius must have been way back then. We muddled our way around, eventually finding most of what was on our list. They ... 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