From now on, 2000 or more, the town and Pompeii of an old thing and the south of the Vesuvius volcano prosper by trade, and will be people. It was crowded with vigor. However, it has been buried in volcanic ashes over one day in the large eruption of the Vesuvius volcano.
Center of Pompeii, Public bathroom
It was buried living.
A graceful life
Uncanny clouds like a pinecone are raised and the Vesuvius volcano began to carry out a large eruption the afternoon on August 24, 79. The town in Pompeii was buried in the volcanic ashes (in thickness meter) on which an animal and a human being lose and pour consciousness with poisonous gas.
As for Pompeii, the excavation progressed from about 150 years before. Population was the big city in which 8000-10,000 people live, it was fixed and the road also had the dining-room and the baker. Thus, it turned out that it is so graceful that a lifestyle of those days is surprised, and is progressing.
Italy
The city of the tragedy buried in volcanic ashes
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Cultural heritage 1997
The Vesuvius volcano is .
The active volcano which repeats an eruption.
It is the mountain sung by "Funiculi funicula" of a folk song.
