Trash Strike

Naples

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February 7th 2011
A quick one hour connection from Rome to Naples brought us to one of Italy’s oldest and grittiest cities. The once prosperous port city - known formerly as the ‘Paris of the south’ - is perhaps better described today as the Asbury Park of the Mediterranean. We had to make our way from the train station to the airport to pick-up our rental car, and that trip in itself was our largest hurdle ... 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