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Things to See: Paving the Way
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No muddy sandals for the fastidious citizens of Pompeii; they had paved streets. With curbs. And sidewalks. Go figure. The material used for the pavers was usually volcanic basalt; very, very durable and also extremely slippery when wet. The streets were raised in middle and sidewalks slanted towards the street to allow rainwater and waste materials to channel into the gutters formed by high curbs.

Steppingstones placed at convenient intervals kept feet dry and away from any unpleasant muck left by cart-hauling animals. Wheels from these carts - all of uniform axle width - wore ruts into the stones over time which helped keep them on the straight and (very) narrow. Some of these tracks may even have been carved, versus worn, into the stone as a safety precaution.

Updated Nov 21, 2011

Address: Various, Pompeii

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Streets of Pompeii
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If you have some more time, you can just walk on the streets of Pompeii and feel the tragical history of this city ...
My suggestion is, take the enough water with you, because there is very hot between this city walls.

On the streets are stepping stones, allows people to cross the road. The kerbs are higher than today's, mainly because the streets were regularly flooded to wash dust and debris away.

Updated Apr 4, 2011

Address: via Villa dei Misteri, 2 80045 Pompei (NA) Italy

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following the routes
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The first time you put your foot on the ancient stones that form numerous strets and paths in Pompei you'll be imerged in the everyday life of old Pompeian people. You'll be almost able to hear them.
My advice...leave your feet take you

Written Nov 15, 2010

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Easy crossing
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There are lots of interesting details to see in Pompeii; One of them is the ingenious solution used to cross the road, in rainy days, but looking at the sizes of those rocks, we have to ask: Did the Italian drivers change their behaviour lately, or crashes happened at all times in those roads?

Updated Mar 25, 2010

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Streets
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Throughout the site, one can see and walk on the very stones the people of Pompeii walked on 2000 years ago. They have of course been smoothed over the millenia. In some places, you can also see the grooves formed by carts and chariots. Not all streets are like this. The cover photo to this site is proof of that. However, walking down any of the streets here gives one a solemn feeling for the doomed citizens of this once thriving community.

Written May 14, 2009

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Laboratorio dei Tintori
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Following to walk along Via dell'Abbondanza you can see on the left the Laboratorio dei Tintori (in English, Dyers' Laboratory)with the boilers used for the cloths.
Forward some meters you can see another shop with the lintel of the facede painted with the busts of Apollo, Mercury, Jupiter and Diana; to the sides of the entry you can see two paintings showing Venus among the cupids and a popular sacred procession.

Written Apr 9, 2009

Address: Via dell'Abbondanza

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Fullonica Stephani
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Some shops beyond the Shop of Verecundus you can see the Fullonica Stephani which is one of the most complete laundromats and dyeing of the town: 13 shops worked the raw wool, in seven handled the spinning and weaving, in nine to the dye, in eighteen to the washing.
It is also a good example of house turned into shop with the lodgings transfered to the second floor. When you start the visit, on the left you can see the pressorium where the cloths were pressed; in the atrium the implovium was turned into a tub of washing. After the garden you can see more tubs and the saltus fullonici where the workers proceeded to the washing of the cloths through pressing.

Written Apr 5, 2009

Address: Regio I, Via dell'Abbondanza

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Ancient 'bridges'
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Along Pompeii's streets you will find stepping stones. Pompeians used them as a 'bridge' when there were floads or just to cross the streets. In the floor near them you can see the signs left by the wheels of the wagons.

Written Jan 16, 2009

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Via Consolare
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Via Consolare was one of the main streets of the town of Pompeii and it connected the forum with the street that connected Pompeii with the town of Ercolanum (nowdays Ercolano). Along its sides you can see many shops, houses and villas. You can also see a well and many taverns.

Written Nov 9, 2008

Address: Via Consolare

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Porta Ercolano
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Porta Ercolano (in English, Ercolano gateway) is the most important gateway of the town of Pompeii. It was also called Saliniensis and it is located in the north-west part of the walls. It has three fornicis: the ones on the sides were reserved to the pedestrians, while the central one was for the wagons.

Written Nov 9, 2008

Address: Via dei Sepolcri

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