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July 4th 2011 After a heavy meal of rice and curry as in traditional Sri Lankan way we set out . Quite a walk to the metro station , and change of two metro lines we reached to Pompeii .
Pompeii was flourishing colony of Rome . It is a town protected with a wall , public offices, markets, amphitheater and temples to various gods and goddesses .
Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted with a big bang and initially d
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom