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The city of Pompeii gets of tourists every year. It is of Italy's biggest tourist . Most tourists leave the with happy and photos, but some take more. They take historic relics, like small or mosaic tiles. Many people now regret this. They say the relics have brought them luck. Hundreds of people from around the have returned the relics. Many apologised and wrote about their bad .

A senior at the 2,000-year-old Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, talked about the . He said one from Latin America wrote about his life being of bad luck after he took a small tile from Pompeii. A Spanish man who stole a statue in 1987 complained that the statue had put, "a on his family". Mr Osanna wants to set up an of all the . He said the letters might be interesting than the relics.

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