Pompeii is a town of 25,751 inhabitants.
In the archaeological excavations of Pompeii has been brought to light the ancient Roman city destroyed tragically as a result of the eruption of the nearby volcano Vesuvius, which occurred in 79.
A few years earlier - in 62 - a terrible earthquake, prefiguring much of the major disaster that would hit the city in a few years, struck the city of Pompeii and Herculaneum and other towns of Campania.
Pompeii was seriously damaged, but immediately began the process of reconstruction. Seventeen years later, while work continues at pace (and even public buildings were almost all to be restored), the city and its inhabitants lived in one of the greatest tragedies of the ancient history now, and at that moment frozen in time, was brought to the surface becoming the second most visited archaeological site in the world.
The excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Oplontis those are on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ovincia of Naples.
