amazing pompei

Last summer I visited the archeological site of Pompeii with my wife and my boy!

Naples and all the area around the vesuvius volcano is very beautiful, even if, unfortunately not so clean due to the problem the local people is facing with garbage collection issue, but the Pompeii site is very well preserved and so far the best place to visit if you are interested in the ancient romans culture and history.

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offers a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried and providing an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants. Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash and decayed away, making natural molds; and excavators used these to make plaster casts, unique and often gruesome figures from the last minutes of the catastrophe. The numerous graffiti carved on the walls and inside rooms provides a wealth of examples of the largely lost Vulgar Latin spoken colloquially, contrasting with the formal language of the classical writers. 

On the photo you can see the Vesuvious volcano on the background.

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