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 Ancient city to the feet of the flourishing Vesuvius a great deal in the Roman period. Its destruction happened AD in 79 following the famous eruption of the volcano that covered her/it of lapilli and ashes. Le prime esplorazioni archeologiche ebbero luogo verso la metà del '700, gli scavi presero grande impulso, ma solo dal 1860 divennero sistematici e razionali. You/he/she can be calculated how thin to today has been put again in light around three fifth of the ancient urban area. Archaeological center among the most famous of the world, that offers a jewel and suit picture of the topography and the life in a Roman city.
The city, to elliptic plant, it was separated from a regular network of roads angle straight intersecantisi. The houses were predominantly twos plans, with garden or inside courtyard and decorated by architectural coverings and paintings of the tallest interesse.Il Hole, vast rectangular plaza, represented the fulcrum of the life political religious and economic town, the principal public buildings they rose you. They are present two theaters: the Small Theater, a construction of the 80-75 a.C. that you/he/she was destined to the musical auditions and representations of mimes; the Great Theater, able 5.000 spectators, that it goes up again to the Hellenistic age (200-150
a.Cs.).
The greatest thermal baths in the city were the Thermal baths Stabiane, you build in age sannitica and referred in that imperial. The decorations to plaster, of age flavias, are among the most notable examples of the kind.
Among the numerous residences of notable beauty, the House of the Vettiis is one of the most interesting examples in house of rich merchants, while the Villa of the Mysteries is perhaps the most important construction in Pompeii. I motivate principal of its interest is the cycle of paintings of the The century a.C. that he/she decorates the Room of the Great painting.
Numerous other buildings deserve a particular attention. Among these they remember him: the House of the Menandro, the House of Loreius Tiburtinus, the House of the gilded Cupids, the House of the Faun, the Villa of Diomede, the amphitheater.
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