• Tim Lynette WilkinsNot just PompeiiTraveler
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    Back to the museum

    October 1, 2025 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 18 °C

    We went back to the Naples museum, this time as part of the tour, but they wanted to take ages talking in the huge gallery of pompeii sculpture, which didn't interest us. So we broke off and did it our way. We started in the gallery of roman glass, which was spectacular, then all the frescoes from the temple of Isis, followed by another wander through the main fresco gallery. Then objects of daily life in pompeii, which were really interesting, although anything wooden didn't survive so it was mostly bronze or ironware. There is a gallery of "Magna Graecia" covering the original Greek settlement of the region from 800bc and it's continuing influence on the Romans. Finally we flew through the prehistory section, which is the latest gallery opened but didn't seem very well thought out and presented.

    After lunch a tour of underground Naples to see the remains of the medieval city and roman city now several metres below current street level. With streets, roman roads, rows of shops and other buildings you can still walk around.    Read more