Starting our Southern Italy roadtrip
October 9th 2021 We drove out of Naples and made a stop at Herculaneum on the way to Sorrento. Herculaneum was a wealthy town, a popular seaside resort for rich Romans, destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius, along with Pompeii. It is a much smaller site than Pompeii, not nearly as popular, situated in a valley by the sea and today surrounded by modern apartment blocks. It is better preserved than Pompeii because i
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