Pompeii ruins

 Herculaneum and Oplontis are shown in the UNESCO
When You book guided Tours in Pompeii ruins, with usWorld Heritage List. the town of Pompeii was
You'll realize  how beautiful and magic this town is.destroyed and completely buried during  a long
In the excavation of Pompeii has been brought to lightcatastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius
the ancient Roman city destroyed tragically followingspanning two days in 79 AD. The eruption buried
an eruption of the nearby volcano Vesuvius,  whichPompeii under meters of ash and pumice, and
occurred in 79. Already some years before - in 62 - a Pompeii was lost for nearly 1,600 years before its
terrible earthquake, prefiguring much of the majoraccidental rediscovery in 1592. The date of the
disaster that would have struck the city in a  feweruption in 79 A.D. is known through a letter of Pliny
years, struck the city of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Younger which reads nonum kal. septembres,
other towns in Campania. Seventeen years later, whilenamely "24 August". This date was contained in the
work continues at a fast pace (even if public buildingsvariant universally considered the most reliable and the
were still almost all to be restored), the city and its manuscript has been accepted as safe so far,
people lived one of the greatest tragedies of ancientalthough some archaeological evidence emerged were
history. Today Pompeii is the second most visitedin bad agreement with a summer date.
archaeological site in the world.The city came to light inWe can also arrange Pompeii guided tours for disabled
1748, thanks to the excavations took and funded bypeople.
Charles of Bourbon. The  excavations of Pompeii,