Herculaneum Or Pompeii Which Is Better
Now imagine walking around a town today a town with roughly 11 000 inhabitants.
Herculaneum or pompeii which is better. With over 2 5 million visitors a year and its listing as a unesco world heritage site pompeii is most certainly the more popular of the two locations. In herculaneum very similar in style but more refined better preserved and at a smaller size we could see a totally different aspect of some of the structures. Pompeii is huge and i have have spent week s there over 5 decades and still don t think i have seen it all. Pompeii and herculaneum experienced the eruption of 79 ad in very different ways.
If you re short on time or hate crowds herculaneum might be a better choice. Before the eruption this seaside town was home to approximately 11 000 people. Pompeii is fricking big. You can have a good visit to herculanium in 3 hours and if you are planing your visit during the.
If you re okay to explore a smaller area in favour of seeing more detailed and better. Because the wind was. Best to visit in a single day. The ruins of pompeii and herculaneum are part of the unesco world heritage site of archaeological areas of pompei.
You all know the drill limited time in naples on our one day stop do i do pompeii or herculaneum read so much i am at overload also planning to do oplontis. Herculaneum is better if you want a more detailed and small scale look at ancient life. We love museums but do get the chance to see roman and greek collections reasonably often whereas this might be our only chance to see pompeii or herculaneum. There were two main stages in the eruption of mount vesuvius.
Cathy herculaneum is probably in better condition than pompeii and the villa poppea at oplontis is better still. This led to varying degrees of preservation and a vast difference in the numbers of survivors. 2 storey buildings with some of the original wood structure very well carbonized as well as doors beds railings or some iron grille. It is also the most expansive.
So i m thinking of visiting one of either pompeii or herculaneum and then going to the archeological museum late in the afternoon it is open until 7 30. Everything about herculaneum is smaller from the size of the site to the size of the crowds and even the shorter distance from naples. In the first phase a huge column of volcanic ash gas and rock shot high into the air and then began to rain down from the sky. You could spends weeks in pompeii which was largely demolished by the volcano.
What has been excavated of herculanium is quite small in comparison but far better preserved and in my opinion more interesting especially if you have limited time. What do you folks vets think which one only limited time. So i m thinking of 2 hours for the museum. Herculaneum is much smaller but better preserved and offers some shade and can be done easily in under 3 hours and will give you a far better insight into a roman town 2000 years ago.
And leave time for the archeology museum in naples where all the best artifacts were taken including lots that. Would that give us enough time to. Wife and i are fast walkers and we also want to do the national museum.