Herculaneum

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15 April 2008

A fifteen minute ride on the train from Pompeii at a modern town called Ercolano, is another Roman settlement destroyed in the 79 AD eruption, Herculaneum. That is where we visited today. It is smaller than Pompeii but is more homely and has more preserved features, particularly upper stories of buildings. Only a proportion has been excavated and some of the remainder is below the modern town. There are fewer public buildings.

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