Pompeii

Sorrento, Pompeii, Capri Island & The Amalfi Coast.

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September 16th 2009
Day 508 (1/09/09) Steps 11271 Up bright and early we boarded the train to Pompeii (as always keen to beat the crowds). We arrived half an hour later, hired a audioguide and made our way round the four hour recommended tour. Pompeii formerly a lavish and rich city was partly destroyed by an early quake in 62AD and then in 79AD Mt Versuvias erupted covering the city until the 18th century. It ... 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