We don’t normally use tour guides, but fortunately we did for Pompeii. This visit was the highlight of our cruise, thanks to Emiliano. Despite the intense heat, we enjoyed a fascinating two hours finding out about the history of this amazing place - highly recommended!
The majority of the inhabitants in Pompeii died because of poisonous gases from Mt. Vesuvius. Their corpses were entirely buried by hot ashes coming from the sky. In 1870, Giuseppe Fiorelli used a technique based on filling the moulds where the corpses had decompos...