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Pompeii is a partially buried town-city near the modern city of Naples in the Italian region of Compania.
Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79.
The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749.
Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire.'
We visited Pompeii on a hot day in September in 1978 on our first trip to Europe and found it fascinating.
We visited it again 35 years later on a hot day in August, 2013. A lot more areas were open, but some of the special areas, homes and courtyards, were no longer open to visitors.
To me, what made this site so exciting was its shear size and detail that allows you to visualize life in this city... like no other ruin I have visited except for Ephesus in Turkey.

LINK TO WIKIPEDIA'S WEB PAGE ON POMPEII

TRAVEL: 1978, 2013 -


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