November 4, 2010
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Capri island – the centre of luxury | Italy Updated: January 29, 2020 | By Claire | More The picturesque island of Capri lies in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Gulf of Naples. Not like the many islands in the vicinity, Capri has not been created by volcanic activity arose, but was separated from the […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
October 18, 2010
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Napoli – busy city under Mount Vesuvius in Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Naples (or Napoli in Italian), with more than a million inhabitants, is the capital of Campania and lies in the Gulf of Naples. It is the third most populous city in Italy, the entire area has […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
October 10, 2010
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Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world — the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature