Pompeii

Sorrento (continued)

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May 27th 2012
Sunday, 27th May, 2012 – Sorrento, Italy We have decided to stay in Sorrento for another night (tomorrow) and will be leaving on Tuesday – still haven’t decided our destination…. We’ll work that out in the morning. The extra day was to see a few more things in this great part of the world. Today we visited Pompeii, and Herculeum – both towns being victims of the earthquak ... 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