Pompei

Our first visit to Pompei didn’t disappoint and given we didn’t do a guided tour or an audio tour we thought we did pretty well.
Fortunately most of the significant sites have a story board at the front giving an insight to what you were looking at and its reason d’etre.

Most impressive for me was the size of the site 176 acres and the fact that archaeological excavations are still unearthing previously undiscovered sites.
It is also valuable to understand just how close Vesuvius was to the city to be obliterated so completely. When you see it in the photos it seems at least 20 kilometers away but its impact was devastating.
The presence of terracotta tiles in the buildings is significant because it had only recently been discovered as an effect building material.Читать далее