POMPEII

 

One of the most amazing trips I've made ​​in my life was a cruise through the Mediterranean Sea. At first, I was reluctant to travel by boat, but the travel agent convinced me that was the best way to see many places without changing hotels and packing our luggage continuously.

One of the places I liked most was Pompeii and Ercolano who suffered one of the biggest natural disasters in history: in the year 79 b.C. they were buried after the eruption of the Vesuvio, fact that made possible the conservation until now under a cape of lava and ash.

It was incredible to see the streets as they were in ancient times preserved by time, and to find out what could happen one afternoon about 2,000 years ago.

What impressed me most was to see the bodies as they were after the eruption of the volcano, molds of human figures that were buried by lava and ash were filled with plaster in recent times, that is why we could imagine the agony of the people who suffered such a terrible tragedy.

Everything was preserved as if the tragedy had happened the day before yesterday (the Forum, the Theater, the Coliseum ...), which made ​​you feel part of the history and could deduce the desperation of those people who tried to avoid their dramatic end.