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TOUR OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF NAPLES (POMPEII MUSEUM) + HERCULANEUM RUINS
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DURATION: | 7/8 hours approximately | |
PRICE: | View the price list | |
AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
INCLUDES: | Private English-speaking guide in the museum (for two hours) THE ENTRANCE FEE IS NOT INCLUDED. ADMISSION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM: ADMISSION OF THE HERCULANEUM RUINS:
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TOUR SCHEDULE: Archaelogical Museum of Naples (POMPEII MUSEUM) & Herculaneum ruins
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| Meeting with our English-speaking driver and his Mercedes car (with air-conditioning) by Your hotel/cruiseship |
| Arrival to Archaelogical Museum of Naples private guided visit of 2 hours with a professional guide |
| 1 hour of free time for lunch - lunch not included |
| Transfer to Herculaneum ruins and private guided visit of 2 hours with a professional guide |
| Back to the hotel/cruiseship |
The construction of large building which houses the Archaeological Museum of Naples began in 1585 when the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro de Giron commissioned the architect G. V. Casale to build a large barracks for the cavalry. The palace was left unfinished and abandoned until the early seventeenth century, when it was completed in 1610 by architect Giulio Cesare Fontana by order of viceroy; Pedro Fernando de Castro, with the intent to host the University.
With the transfer of the University into the San Salvatore building, major renovation and expansion of the building carried out in order to change the ex University into a Museum. Here there are the major archaeological collections that adorned the Roman palaces, and the great archaeological heritage from Herculaneum, Pompeii and other Vesuvian cities.
The ancient city of Herculaneum, already badly damaged by the earthquake of 62, was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius (79), which covered her with an impressive mass of mud, ash and other materials that, penetrating in every opening, solidifies into a hard and compact layer of 15-20 meters. These special circumstances that led to the burial of Herculaneum, while they have made and still make it very difficult to dig, on the other hand allowed the preservation of highly perishable materials such as papyrus and the same food, sealed in the mud dry. This seal also protected materials such as structural wood. The excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii with those of Oplontis are included since 1997 in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2008 they were visited by 264,036 people.
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
Walking further down Via dell’Abbondanza in the direction of the Porta di Sarno Gate, we reach Pompeii’s equivalent of a ‘fast-food’ restaurant, where warm meals could be bought and eaten on the spot. Coins for a total weight of about 3 kg, equivalent in worth to about 680 sesterces, were found in one of the wall recesses. Given the large quantity of change (374 asses and 1,237 quadrantes, each worth one of quarter of an as), these were probably the takings of a single day’s business. The shop is completed by a sacellum dedicated to Mercury and Dionysus and a small shrine for the tutelary deities of the household. The publican’s own apartment extended to the rear of t ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 2, 2, 9) Ingredients:
- Basically, chicken fricassee..
- 1 whole chicken, deboned or 2 boneless, skinless thighs, 2 boneless, skinless breasts chopped into pieces
- 2 bunches of leeks, usually 3-5 of them in a bunch cut into pieces and washed
- 1 small bunch of dill weed, or about 1 tsp. dried
- 3 qt. water or 1.5 qt. each chicken broth and water, keeping back 2 cups for later
- black pepper to taste
- celery seed to taste
- 2/3 cup of rice flour
- fish sauce to taste
- 3 tbs. red wine
Instructions:
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FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.