Sorrento

Mediterranean Cruise: Pompeii/Sorrento-Day Four

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October 5th 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 After breakfast at the Garden Café we boarded our tour bus and were off to Pompeii a 30 minute drive from Naples. Our tour guide, Enzo, did a wonderful job describing ancient Pompeii and what life was like for those who called Pompeii home before that fateful day, August 24, 79 AD, when Mt. Vesuvius rained death upon not only Pompeii, but Herculaneum and Stabiae. ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania » Pompei

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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