| | | | | Herculaneum and Oplontis are shown in the UNESCO |
| When You book guided Tours in Pompeii ruins, with us | | | | World 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 light | | | | catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius |
| the ancient Roman city destroyed tragically following | | | | spanning two days in 79 AD. The eruption buried |
| an eruption of the nearby volcano Vesuvius, which | | | | Pompeii 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 major | | | | accidental rediscovery in 1592. The date of the |
| disaster that would have struck the city in a few | | | | eruption 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, while | | | | namely "24 August". This date was contained in the |
| work continues at a fast pace (even if public buildings | | | | variant 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 ancient | | | | although some archaeological evidence emerged were |
| history. Today Pompeii is the second most visited | | | | in bad agreement with a summer date. |
| archaeological site in the world.The city came to light in | | | | We can also arrange Pompeii guided tours for disabled |
| 1748, thanks to the excavations took and funded by | | | | people. |
| Charles of Bourbon. The excavations of Pompeii, | | | | |