Streets, 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.

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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

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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?

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.