The Town at Night

Amalfi Coast - Positano

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July 12th 2006
The Amalfi Coast is one of those places in Italy, like Cinque Terre, that I have always heard people raving about. Rather than taking the winding mountain side road through the town of Amalfi to Positano, I took a ferry straight from Salerno. As we approached the porto at the base of the hillside town, I immediately understood what all the buzz was about. The town was stunning. And continuing with ... 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