Pompei

Class Trip II and Florence

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November 18th 2006
Hello all! In the past week and a half i have had the chance to go to Naples/Pompei/Sorrento/Almalfi Coast with my class for a study of archiology at Pompei and the Arch. museum in Naples. In our free time we made sure to make it to the Almafi Coast! Pompei was great and the arch. museum had a lot of interesting stuff. I still cannot believe that ash rained down up to 15 feet there! It is ama ... 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