Pompeii-Ercolano-Vesuvio
Description
This tour may be the closest you'll ever get
to time travel. Thanks to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, the towns at its base
were carpeted in fallout and preserved
for posterity. In one day we will take you almost 2000 years back in the time visiting the following cities:
Pompeii. More a city than a site, a visit gives you the chance to stroll ancient streets;
observing along the way ancient houses,
shops, temples, frescoes, graffiti, and plas
ter casts of people killed by the eruption.
Herculaneum. Smaller than Pompeii, but
due to the pyroclastic flow of the
eruption of Vesuvius which preserved
organic materials such as wood this
site is even more evocative and in places
breathtakingly well-preserved.
Mount Vesuvius. Mainland Europe's only
áctive volcano is also a national park,
with paths winding along the lava Flows
You’ll be amazed at how vesuvius looms over the entire region even in naples 10 miles away it remains a totally commanding presence