Naples' catacombs

Most of those frescos are well over a 1,000 years old. The value they represent as a cultural heritage must be enormous. Still they weren't hardly protected at all until just a few decades ago

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Italy 2017 part II - Naples

May 11th 2017
Naples - some above ground and some under Visiting Pompeii was the main purpose of this trip but I did also see some pretty interesting things in Naples also. Here I will give you a quick resume of what I saw and did there. As hinted in the heading above several of the sites I visited in Naples were under ground. I'll start with them. • Catacombs - the [url=https://en.w ... 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

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