Museum day

Today we spent in the Naples museum, which is a really good museum; well-lit, beautiful artifacts, labels in Italian and English. We were impressed!

We will be going again on our tour so we avoided the pompeii stuff, but there's lots of other things. One floor of Egyptian things which were very good, the Farnese collection of jewels, with lots of cameo work including a spectacular bowl made from red and white striped sardonyx with a white cameo. Then lots of mosaics, some from pompeii, which were the finest we have ever seen, made from tiny, tiny, tessera. We did look briefly at the Pompeii and Herculaneum frescoes to find the ones we have pictures of on our bathroom wall.

One the way back we stopped to see a small excavated section of wall from the pre-roman Greek city of neopolis.Read more