Walked the ruins of Pompeii. It was hot and it’s fairly dusty in there. Most of the highly prized ruins are locked down. So you need to book a tour to see the good ones.
Pompeii is about 8km from Mt Vesuvius. In 79AD it was buried by pumice and ash when Vesuvius erupted. It existed mostly because of agriculture and people were used to frequent tremors. Evacuations was planned by Pliny the Elder but he died helping people escape. We actually know what happened because Pliny the Younger ended up writing a first-hand account of it.
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- Vineyards and pomegranate trees dot some of the closed areas.
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- It was rather hazy on this day.. so no Vesuvius in the background.
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- Snake fresco.
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- Almost everything is under lock and key, mostly because of theft and vandalism.
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- Floor mosaic of a dog. Looks like a doberman almost.
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- Mosaics on the floor indicate that a rather important person used to live here.
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- Interesting details.
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- Walls appear to have been covered in paintings.
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- A temple of some kind?
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- Another creepy cast of a mummy.
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- More relief art.
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- Reliefs on the walls rather than paint, possible because this is in a bath house.
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- Narrow streets of Pompeii. The town itself is large… little greenery apart from the occasional courtyard. They had gardens, but it was usually secluded.
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- A cast replica of a Pompeii mummy. It’s rather eerie looking.
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- A few of the storefronts have these different kinds of marble chicks making up the bench. Not sure if this was built after the fact.
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- This used to be a bakery of some kind where they made bread and pizza – possibly.
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- An older water fountain.
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- Various colors 🙂
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- Porous volcanic rock used fort he majority of walls in Pompeii.
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- Pompeii was partially covered in 13 to 20ft of pumice and ash in 79AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. They have been digging the ruins up ever since.
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- The outside of the amphitheatre of Pompeii.
