Woman & Home

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On arrival we transfer by coach to Sorrento, where you have a choice of carefully selected hotels to stay for seven nights. Our first full day in this centuries-old resort is at a suitably relaxed pace, beginning with a short walking tour. The region

Woman & Home

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Beautiful Italy has retained its roots and traditions, offering excellent food and wine, sublime scenery, a great climate and a phenomenal cultural legacy. Our base for this tour is picturesque Sorrento, with the chance to explore the Amalfi Coast

BBC History Magazine

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26 APRIL 1937 The afternoon of 26 April 1937 began like any other for the inhabitants of Guernica, a Basque town east of Bilbao. The weekly market was in full swing, with visiting shoppers swelling the town’s population to around 10,000 people. Soon,

Woman & Home

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Beautiful Italy has retained its roots and traditions, offering excellent food and wine, sublime scenery, a great climate and a phenomenal cultural legacy. Our base for this tour is picturesque Sorrento, with the chance to explore the Amalfi Coast

The Independent

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In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in AD 79. Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by

ARCHAEOLOGY

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At the sprawling villa of Civita Giuliana just north of Pompeii, archaeologists unearthed a nearly intact four-wheeled chariot, the first of its kind to be found in the Roman world. The chariot, which could seat one or two people, was discovered in a

BBC History Magazine

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In AD 79 a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii was smothered by 4 to 5 metres of volcanic debris while Herculaneum was entombed in 20 metres of volcanic ash that harden

Woman's Weekly

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To walk around the streets of Pompeii is a somewhat eerie thing. It takes only an ounce of imagination to ‘see’ the former inhabitants of this thriving Roman town, ‘hear’ the rumble of cartwheels on stone roads, and ‘smell’ the hot food and wine bein

Woman & Home

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Italy has retained its roots and traditions, offering excellent food and wine, sublime scenery, a great climate and a phenomenal cultural legacy. Our base for this tour is picturesque Sorrento, with the chance to explore the Amalfi Coast (left). Next

BBC History Magazine

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A host of discoveries have been made in the remains of the ancient settlements of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the centuries since they were obliterated by Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, analysis of black, glass-like matter found among one victim’s remains ha

Italia magazine

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Arriving on a nearly packed ferry, surrounded by cameras and phones snapping away to capture the view, it’s impossible to underestimate the popular appeal of this tiny island off the coast of the Sorrentine peninsula, not far from Naples. This is one

ARCHAEOLOGY

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THE EMPEROR NERO is thought to have visited the southern Italian city of Pompeii in A.D. 64, perhaps spending a few nights in the enormous villa his wife, Poppaea, owned in the nearby town of Oplontis. Nero would have seen a city struggling to recove

The Guardian

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An ancient Roman house has reopened to the public in the archaeological park of Herculaneum, the town near Naples buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Considered the site’s most noble Roman villa, the House of the Bicentenary had been un

Woman & Home

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Beautiful Italy is a country that has retained its roots and traditions, offering excellent food and wine, sublime scenery, an enviable climate and a phenomenal cultural legacy. Our base for this tour is picturesque Sorrento, with the chance to expl

The Guardian

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Fattened up with acorns and chestnuts to the size of a cricket ball and then stuffed, baked and perhaps seasoned with honey and poppy seeds, the dormouse was one of ancient Rome’s most popular delicacies. The Romans also adored dishes such as rabbit

National Geographic Traveller (UK)

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In the National Archaeological Museum of Naples sits a young man, bending forward over himself, his left arm draped over his knee as he looks shyly down. Naked, he’s the Roman god Hermes, according to the sculptor who cast him in bronze nearly 2,000

NPR

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The adult male survived the initial eruption but was, like many victims, caught in the subsequent cloud of gases and rocks. Unlike most victims, he was also pinned down by a "formidable stone block."

World War II

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MOUNT VESUVIUS isn’t the only source of destruction that’s rained down on the ancient Italian city of Pompeii. Allied bombers targeted the site, too, and their legacy remains—in the form of as many as 10 unexploded bombs believed to be buried among t

The Guardian

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A well-preserved frescoed “fast food” counter is among the latest discoveries unearthed by archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The 150 or so thermopolia, or snack bars, dotted across the city were mostly used by the poorer residents,

Guernica Magazine

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Well, that took a dark little turn, didn’t it? No matter. Bad behavior always needs an audience. The post In the Garden of the Fugitives appeared first on Guernica.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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AT THE TIME POMPEII was buried by the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, it was a bustling, cosmopolitan Roman city. Sitting at the crossroads of major regional arteries, it was a commercial hub with a mixed population that included descendants of G

Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

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For me, the beginning of a road trip starts when I’m aimlessly looking at a map and something in my mind clicks, thinking, ‘That could be an interesting trip.’ For the next few months, the idea will develop from a simple destination to a vague loop a

Italia magazine

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A team of archaeologists at Pompeii have been carrying out restoration work on the site’s Central Baths (Terme Centrale) and now the area is open to the public for the first time in decades. The renovations were part of the urgent and large-scale wor

Traces

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COLLECTING MATERIAL for a history of the Roman Empire, the historian Tacitus sent a letter to Pliny the Younger asking for an account of the death of his famous uncle, the polymath Pliny the Elder, who had died some 25 years earlier in 79 AD. Pliny’s

Yachting Monthly

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Sorrento in southern Italy is one of those magical places that should be on everyone’s itinerary at some point in their lives and for many it is a bucket list destination. Despite this being a busy and much sought-after area for yachting, it is possi

The Guardian

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A well-preserved fresco depicting fighting gladiators has been unearthed by archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The scene is of the end of a fight between two types of gladiator – a murmillo and a Thracian – where one wins and the ot

Sail

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Prego! Weeks after returning from our Italian flotilla trip last summer, I was still feeling the relaxed atmosphere of the AmalfiCoast. It’s a Mediterranean paradise, with crystal-clear waters, chaming hillside towns and cliffside villages, plenty of

You South Africa

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Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 woolly mammoths on a building site north of Mexico City. They say there are so many bones it will be impossible to dig up all of them. The discovery was made when construction started on converting a di

Italia magazine

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Arriving on a nearly packed ferry, surrounded by cameras and phones snapping away to capture the view, it’s impossible to underestimate the popular appeal of this tiny island off the coast of the Sorrentine peninsula, not far from Naples. This is one

NPR

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For the first time, a food stall has been excavated in its entirety in the city. The stall had remnants of 2,000-year-old food — giving researchers a glimpse into Pompeii street food.