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Herculanium (2 ours and more)

           

         

All tourists know about the city of Pompeii, but Herculaneum is not less interesting, I would not put it on the second place, it even has its own characteristics, which are not found in Pompeii. Herculaneum is much closer to Vesuvius than Pompeii, the city is literally at its feet. Therefore, pyroclastic flow, which consists of volcanic mud (here was not a rain of pumice stones like in Pompeii), covered Herculaneum for the first, the town was wiped out in a few seconds. The temperature of the volcanic mud here reached 400 ° C, which burned everything found on the way. This volcanic mud frozen into a hard stone that sealed like in a vacuum capsule whole city, creating the unique characteristics of conservation, which has no equal. So, here during the excavations were not found hollows of the victims like in Pompeii, so in Herculanium there are not plaster casts, unlike Pompeii, the 25 m. of pyroclastic material which covered the town preserved wooden and other organic-based objects such as roofs, beds, doors, food and even some 300 skeletons which were surprisingly discovered in recent years along the seashore (till this finding thought that the inhabitants were survived). In Herculaneum roofs didn't collapsed under the weight of pumice stones and ash like in Pompeii, but many of them are preserved, so you can fully perceive the height of the city. Unlike Pompeii, on the site of the ancient city was built a new modern town and so still 80% of Herculaneum is under 25 meters of volcanic rock and earth. But we can see the most beautiful part of the city with houses overlooking the sea, temples, a forum, baths. Pompeii was a trading city, when Herculaneum was elegant and quiet town for aristocratic families, not for nothing well known Villa of the Papyri is here very close. Here there are less tourists, therefore less queues and crowd, so it is possible really to enjoy the visit of the town.
Classic tour of Herculaneum takes 2 hours. But at your request we can stay here more time and see what interests you. Ideal to combine a tour to Herculaneum with a visit to the archaeological museum of Naples where there are an important collections of frescoes, mosaics, the largest collection in the world of ancient bronze statues, marble statues, the largest and most valuable collection of silver articles of Roman period found till now, household items, papyrus, and so on , many of these come just from Herculaneum and Pompeii. Also a visit to Herculaneum is well combined with a visit of the volcano Vesuvius, whose eruption led to the destruction of the ancient city.

    

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