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HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This house, which is situated in the town’s western quarter just before the street forks to the left towards the Porta Ercolano gate, is one of the oldest in Pompeii, dating from the 3rd century B.C.. In addition to the atrium with its surrounding rooms, it has a small covered porch behind the tablinum, a garden and a summer triclinium with stone couches. Towards the rear of the building there is a kitchen, a dining room and several bedrooms. The front of the building houses four shops, a tavern and a bakery with three millstones and an oven with a fireplace alongside. The owner probably took advantage of the house’s proximity to the Porta Ercolano gate and converte ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 2, 1, 7) Ingredients:
- 500g minced meat
- 1 french roll, soaked in white wine
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 50ml Liquamen (can be replaced by 1/2 tsp salt + a little white wine)
- some stone-pine kernels and green peppercorns
- a little Caroenum
- Baking foil
Instructions:
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Mix minced meat with the soaked french roll. Ground spices and mix into
the meat. Form small burgers and put pine kernels and peppercorns into
them. Put them into baking foil and grill them together with Caroenum.
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.