Bottega connected to the Casa del Mosaico di Nettuno e Anfritrite

This is the wine shop belonging to the owner of the House of Neptune and Aphrodite. It is one of the best preserved shops in Herculaneum and is still full of goods that were preserved by the hardened mud and contains many wine amphorae on specially designed wooden shelves in the back.

Ancient Napoli - Ercalano & Pompei

May 23rd 2008
When organising this trip, we noticed that the blog boards were full of every man and his dog expressing an opinion over which is better: Pompeii or Herculaneum. Well we had the time, so we decided to over-expose ourselves to ancient Italia and visit both in the same day. Maybe not the wisest plan, as it ended up not really a question of which site was ‘better’ as they were both really diffe ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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