POMPEI

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Province: Napoli

Perhaps in Italy and in the world, for different aspects, there is no other archaeological site that can be compared to Pompeii.
An unique place and without time that transmits some particular emotions.
Only who has had the fortune to visit it can fully understand the charm, the magic and the greatness of these places.

From a historical and artistic point of view Pompeii give us the possibility to be able to admire frescos, sculptures, mosaics, public and religious buildings.

From the temporal point of view, instead, give us the possibility to dip at the same time in a virtual reality. To every way Pompeii also recalls a scenery of extreme pain, it's enough to imagine, also only for an instant, what happened in that terrible moments of almost 2000 years ago. Nothing allowed to presage what great tragedy would have gotten depressed the 24 August of the 79 a.C. to the slopes of the Vesuvius. Up to that moment, the volcano had represented source of wealth and comfort, the fertility of the whole area gave abundance of every kind of fruits.


Besides, the city, thanks to its dynamism, was also active above all from a commercial point of view. Instead in that inauspicious day earth tore itself and the sky became dark, making to rain an infinity of incandescent material that buried, over Pompeii, also Ercolano and Oplontis the actual Torre Annunziata.. From that day, of Pompeii the traces were lost; up to when in 1600 around, thanks to of the jobs for the construction of an aqueduct, they restarted to surface from the ground the first testimonies.

In 1750, under the kingdom of Charles of Borbone, it was begun a country of excavation, country that was still better organized beginning from 1800 around, when that is Giuseppe Fiorelli became manager of the excavations.
Thanks to his genial intuition is owed to pour some liquid chalk inside the voids left by the charred bodies, of here the human tread that represent even the last expression of pain had by the victims during that terrible eruption.
Subsequently, beginning from 1924, the excavations were submitted to the archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri that dedicated himself with extreme passion up to its death, happened in 1961.

To today it has been brought to the light around the 70-75% of the whole area, area circumscribed by 3220 square meters of boundaries.
The parts that stay to dig can still reserve, without doubt, unexpected surprises, as frescos or sculptures, that can be affirmed however with certainty it is that the general picture of the life in Pompeii results delineated with extreme clarity.

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