POMPEII

Pompeii a city constructed on a surface of approximately 66 hectares, a huge city for the time. Its importance as trades center is developed more and more since Pompeii was important and flourishing center for handicraft activities, like demonstrates the shops discovered in all the territory. To all this activities of trading a first blow was give in the year 62 A.D., when Pompeii experienced a terrible earthquake. But the inhabitants of Pompeii are not discouraged, and have begun to reconstruct Pompeii even more beautiful. During this reconstruction, in the year 79 A.D. – August 24th around noon a catastrophe of enormous proportions hit Pompeii; Ash, gas, stones and lapilli from the explosion of Mount Vesuvio destroyed everything on his passage. For more than 1000 years Pompeii was buried, till the first discoveries of the sixteenth century with the arrivals of the Bourbon dynasty. Since the mid 17th century Pompeii become one of the favorite archaeological destination for the greatest travelers and historians of the period. But for having an exact idea of the archaeological findings we must attend the half of 1800, when the Neapolitan professor of archaeology, Nicola Fiorelli has begun to classify all the found material, an enormous amount of work that is continued from 1924 to 1961 from another great archaeologist, Amedeo Maiuri. Still today we can admire the treasures of priceless historical value in one of the more important museums in the world. “the archaeological museum of Naples„. A tour in Pompeii is a journey in past where the coming visitors from all over the world can experience something that no other tour in archaeological site can offer.