Coral Sea (CVB 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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LEGHOH EGHORN, more properly Livorno, is one of the busiest seaports in Italy. The city is modern and well-built, but retains many canals, which makes it look not unlike Venice. Leghorn began as a small hshing village of the Pisans and was later taken over by the Florentines in 1421. This thriving port city served as a launching point for several interesting tours by members of the Sixth Fleet. There was a tour to the little city of Pisa, with its ancient structures, the most famous of which is the leaning tower. There was Florence, the cultural center of yesterday's giant painters: Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Giotto and Raphaelg and yesterday's leaders of thought and literature: Dante and Machiavelli. Other tours take in points all the way from Rome to Switzerland. . cw-rxx Statues nt Legliorn Stadium. The Bnptistery in Pisa, Italy.

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HE ETERNAL CITY lies on both banks of the Tiber River ll surrounded on its outer edges by an ancient wall. Centered in Rome is the Vatican City, administrative center of the Roman Catholic Church. History records ROIHC'S first settlement in 800 B.C. Here may be found the most comprehensive display of ancient archi- tecture in the world today. It was Augustus, Ro1ne's First emperor who claimed he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble. Basillicn of St. Pauls outside the walls, Rome. limi' ,, .1 MJ St. Jolm's Basilica' RUN? , 'E 1 St. Peters, Rome. The hotel where we stayed in Rome

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