Italy Amalfi Coast Pompeii
Covered by ash since the 1C, this historic Roman city offers a wonderful insight into ancient life, architecture, and art.
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The eruption destroyed the city, killing its inhabitants and burying it under tons of ash. Evidence for the destruction originally came from a surviving letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder, an admiral of the Roman fleet, who tried to rescue citizens.
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Italie, Maiori vue de la Via Montecorvo un jour de pluie by Marie Thérèse Hébert & Jean Robert Thibault
