About the place you will visit
This is the perfect combination to visit the most important cities destroyed by the fury of the volcano Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii, an active commercial town of approximately 20,000 people, was buried under many feet of ashes and cinders and only excavated in the 1800's. Its inhabitants attempted to flee but there were those who suffocated after inhalating the toxic gas. Herculaneum, a wealthy and residential town chosen by the aristocracy as a vacation resort, is a real jewel of Roman art. In contrast to Pompeii, it was submerged under a burning river of lava and mud which solidified and turned into tufa, preserving the town for centuries. Along the waterfront there are still some of the human skeletons belonging to the inhabitants who were attempting to escape. Unfortunately death caught up with them, being trapped in the boathouses where they were searching for a shelter.