Pompeii
The archaeological excavations of Pompeii are one of the sites most visited archaeological sites in the world
Pompeii a town in the city of Naples, built at the foot of Vesuvius, from a migration from the EGEO, but not a real village but more a cluster of houses. The first traces of an important center date back to the 6th century A.C. After the many wars that followed over the centuries, among which we remember: The Samnite Wars, The Second Punic War, The Social War. In 80 A.C. Pompeii definitely entered the orbit of Rome. In 79 D.C. Pompeii was submerged by ash and lapilli with the eruption of Vesuvius. The Pompeii we know today, the modern Pompeii was founded after the reconstruction of the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii, the Sanctuary was consecrated in 1891. The first excavations in the Pompeian area began in 1748. The archaeological excavations of Pompeii are one of the sites most visited archaeological sites in the world, where you can see an ancient commercial city, with lifestyle still in use today.
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