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Napoli - where pizza began and home to the mob

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October 19th 2010
It's no lie. Italians really do eat pizza, a lot of pizza and who'd have thought it...pasta too. I was in heaven - as soon as we left Bari that was. The morning of leaving hell hostel in Bari we hopped a train for Napoli. A place we had wanted to go because of it's rich history and location - being so close to mount Vesuvius and the amazing Roman city of Pompeii was just too good of an opportu ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania » Naples

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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