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Open Hours: 9a-noon M-Su, 4:30p-7p M-Sa Leave a Comment Address: Via Duomo, Naples, 80138 Italy
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 by rukiLeave a Comment Address: Via Caracciolo - Borgo Marinaro, Naples, 80133Phone: Phone: +39 0817640590Directions: Nearest Station: Piazza Amedeo
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 Pompei excavations by night by egicom05
Suggestion on Forum is a show which starts from the Porta Marina and it progressively reveals, through a mix of lights and sounds, all the different environments of the town. A voice accompanies the show, and narrates events and curiosities of the life in Pompeii in 79 p.C.
Pompeii by night, instead, is a moonlight free-walk in the excavations, thanks to a fixed lighting system. With more than 500 lights set in the ancient town. It’s a beautiful plunge in the life of Roman Empire.
When Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 A.D., it engulfed the two flourishing Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as the many rich villas in the areas. Since the mid 18th century these have been progressively uncovered and made accessible to the public.
The vast expanse of the commercial town of Pompeii contrasts with the restricted but better preserved remains of the holiday resort of Herculaneum; however both towns give a great impression of the opulent life-style of the citizens of the early Roman Empire.
Herculaneum is one of the best examples of the life in the Roman Empire, even if it contains Greek influences: in fact its name, Herculaneum, was dedicated to Hercules. It was uncovered since 1738, and the excavations are still today uncompleted. In Herculaneum we can admire a lot of buildings: Deers’ House, the House with a mosaic atrium, Neptune’s House, Bicentenary’s House (which shows tracks of the Cross, and it is an important evidence of the Christian worship), and so on. There is also a theatre and some thermal baths.
More extended than Herculaneum, Pompei was an important commercial centre and a strategic point of relation between Rome and the Empire.
Opening hours Pompeii by night: 15th May-11th Oct (20.30-23.30)
Herculaneum: Nov-Mar/Apr-Oct (8.30-17.00/19.30).
[Egicom05 - by Sun City] Leave a Comment Address: Porta Marina (Pompei)/Corso Resina (ErcolanPhone: +39 081 8575347 (Pompei)Directions: Routes: Railway Circumvesuviana from Naples to Sorrento stop Pompei; From Naples to Sorrento/Poggiomarino/Torre Annunziata stop ErcolanoOther Contact: +39 081 7390963 (Ercolano)
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Open Hours: 9a-7p M-Sa Leave a Comment Address: Piazza Municipio, Naples, 80133 Italy
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 The Veiled Christ by egicom05
In the crypt, under the Chapel, there are the mysterious anatomical machines, two perfect replicas of human circulatory system, with the entire system of blood veins and arteries and with some organs, perfectly preserved. According to a legend the anatomical machines are the result of a gruesome experiment that the prince made on two of his servants, a man and a woman (who was pregnant): he gave them a poison which transformed their blood in marble.
PRICE: 5 euros
OPENING HOURS: 10,00-20,00 (You can enter until 20 minutes before the closing)
During Christmas period:
24-25-26-31 December h. 10,00-13,30
1 Jenuary closed
6 Jenuary h.10,00-13,00
[Egicom05 - by Elisir] Leave a Comment Address: Via Francesco de Sanctis n.19Phone: +39 0815518470Directions: By car: take the motorway tangenziale and exit at Capodimonte By metro: Montesanto stop. From metro to here there are 15 minutes of walk.Website: www.museosansevero.it
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The Catacombs are a two-level underground cemetery, dating from the 2nd century and boasting many interesting frescoes and mosaics. You can enter the catacombs on Via di Capodimonte (head down an alley going alongside the Madre del Buon Consiglio Church).
The catacombs were dug from the yellow “tufo” (sandstone) of the Aminei hills in Capodimonte. The monument's original nucleus goes back to the beginning of the second century A.D. It had been a patrician family's ancient tomb and was later donated to the Christian Community. In the next centuries (till the tenth) it was transformed and turned into an official cemetery and a meeting point for the Christian Community. It was progressively enlarged (digging the hill) especially after the fifth century, when the bones of San Gennaro (the fervently loved patron Saint of the town) were transferred here and the Catacombs became a pilgrimage site, attracting a growing number of visits and processions (but now the remains of San Gennaro are in the cathedral “Duomo” of Naples).
The Catacombs’ total extension is of five square kilometers, but only a small part can be visited. A guide will conduce you through tunnels and “cubiculum” decorated with pictorial cycles which are among the most important examples of Southern Italian Paleochristian figurative art. Along with several well-preserved frescoes and mosaics there's a depiction of San Gennaro (ninth century).
The tour takes you through the upper level of tunnels, passing through two basilicas totally carved from the rock. The Catacombs remained active until the 10th century, but several graffitos (dated 1700, 1800) on the rocks show that neapolitans never stopped accessing the tunnels, which, during the world war II, served as air raid shelter.
The Catacombs are not frightful and the tunnels are unexpectedly wide and luminous.
If you plan to go there, it is better to make a phone call asking for an english speaking guide and the exact time of beginning of the visit (lasting about 45 minutes).
Ticket: 5 euro. Leave a Comment Address: Via Capodimonte 16, NapoliPhone: +39 0818812131Directions: By car: take the motorway tangenziale and exit at Capodimonte. By bus 147R, 178, C67 (stop at the Madre del Buon Consiglio Church)
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The monument fascinates and arouses fear for the atmosphere of mystery that surrounds it. Ancient and modern searches, recognized in the cave of the Sibilla, a military gallery of communication between the lake of Averno and that of Lucrino.
Virgilio in the I a.C did a suggestive poetic description of it: the Sibilla, according to an ancient legend, was a fascinating woman, whose exceptional beauty made falling in love the god Apollo; after the refusals of the Sibilla, he decided to give her a gift, saying her: "Ask me anything! ". She took in her hands a handful of grains of sand and asked him to be able to live as many years as the grains in her hand. But she forgot to ask for the eternal youth.
Sibilla went to Cuma where she prophesied for many centuries, up to when she understood the punishment that the desire had inflicted her: the longevity, accompanied by the damages of the old age, reduced her like a mere shell of a woman.
[Egicom05 - by Amaltea] Leave a Comment Address: The town of CumaDirections: Highways: Tangenziale Naples-Pozzuoli. Exit 14. Licola-Patria street and then, Miliscola street (close lake of Lucrino). Bus: SEPSA. Naples-Torregaveta, line to Fusaro. Stopped Cuma.
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Open Hours: 7:30a-noon & 3:30p-6p M-F, 8:30a-12:30p holidays Leave a Comment Address: Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, 80132 Italy
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