Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Unlike Pompeii, the mainly pyroclastic material that covered Herculaneum carbonized and preserved more wooden objects such as roofs, beds, and doors, as well as other organic-based materials such as food and papyrus.

According to the traditional tale, the city was rediscovered by chance in 1709, during the drilling of a well.

The people who had gone to the harbor to escape the gases and lava.

Very impressively decorated houses.

 Afterwards, we walked around the Ercolano city. 

Taking the funicular up to Vomero.