Pompei vs Herculaneum: two cities in comparison
Two cities, the same eruption but two different destinies: Herculaneum will be the first city to be discovered, and thanks to her will be found Pompeii, 10 years later. But unlike Pompeii, which will see the light of the sun for the entire route of its walls, the pearl of the gulf, Herculaneum still lies, for most of the sub-meter rock, that volcanic mud that still keeps most of its riches sealed under the new city and its homes. There are many differences between the two cities, in architecture, in decorative richness, in everyday life and even in their falling asleep under different volcanic products and reappear centuries later.Pompei e Vesuvio