Pompeii and Herculaneum can be considered one of the most important testimonies and better conserved roman civilization from beyond 2000 years ago.
The two cities was buried during the eruption of the Mont Vesuvius in the 79 A.C., for being then discovered in the 1738, commissioned from King Carl Borbone.
While Pompeii came covered with blanket of ash from a torrent of lava approximately 6-7 meters, Herculaneum, was completely buried with a torrent of incandescent lava that has petrified the majority of the objects, making them possible to be fond intact till the nowadays.
To take a walk for the diggings is absolutely the unique experience; it is like making a travel in the time: you can breathe the atmosphere of the antiquity life, that public and most of all that private one.
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