DISCOVER THE POMPEII HISTORY AFTER THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS VULCANO
Visit Pompeii on a guided tour with skip-the-line access including entrance fee. Enjoy maximum convenience with included round-trip tickets from the Sorrento Train Station.
Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy.
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Many of the inhabitants were also buried before they could escape.
The catastrophe was described in a surviving letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder, an admiral of the Roman fleet, who tried to rescue citizens.
