Thick layers of ash covered Pompeii and Herculaneum, both towns placed at the base of Mount Vesuvius.
A mock ballistic missile on a launcher points down the Srinagar Road, toward Indian forces on the Line of Control, and large, brightorange synthetic palm trees with orange coconuts have been placed at some of the town's major intersections.
Taormina, Sicily, Italy The cobbled streets of the pretty seaside resort of Taormina offer a classically Mediterranean backdrop to a wedding, with the ceremony taking place at the town hall - a historic palazzo in the centre of the old town.
Frustrated at being one of 500 foreign correspondents held at bay at Košice, some 10 miles from where the Russians were trying to browbeat the Czech leader, Alexander Dubcek, at Cierna, it occurred to him that, as the meeting was taking place at the town's railway institute, there must also be a railway line.
CROSS-WESTCHESTER Correction: January 30 , 2005 Sunday A report in the Cross-Westchester column on Jan . 16about the annual re-enactment of a speech made by Lincoln in Peekskill in February 1861 misstated the number of times the event has taken place at the town's train depot.
The council's annual general meeting, which is the first since the city elected a mayor, took place at the town hall.
Clacton's count, where Mrs Ridout will be spending her evening this time around, is taking place at the town's leisure centre.
Civic leaders in Stotfold said they will look to hold a celebration similar to the one that took place at the town's Memorial Hall after Pendleton won sprint gold in Beijing in 2008.
Two constituency counts are taking place at the town's Charter Hall - Colchester, a Liberal Democrat seat since 1997, and Harwich and North Essex, won by the Conservatives last time around.
The first attested instance of strong resistance to Alboin's migration took place at the town of Ticinum (Pavia), which he started to besiege in 569 and captured only after three years.
