text: Vacations were spent by the sea or in the mountains ; people listened to soothing operas like Puccini 's La Bohyme and Madame Butterfly ; the first silent-movies of The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis were made ; one could partake in intellectual conversations in open air caf ? ? s at the hour of the passeggiata .
  
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  More people could now afford to go on vacations , so they became very common at the time .