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PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR FOR WHEELCHAIR CONFINED VISITORS TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF NAPLES (POMPEII MUSEUM)
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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 sumptuous villa was built just out-side the Porta Ercolano gate in sight of the town walls. An entrance on Via dei Sepolcri led straight into the 14-column peristyle around which the various rooms and living quarters of the house were situated. The house’s bath area was situated in a triangular space between the road and the peristyle while the triclinium/living room opposite commanded a view over the Gulf of Naples and the large garden below. In the centre of the garden was an open-air triclinium with a swimming pool surrounded by a covered gallery (cryptoporticus). Here the master of the house, with his ‘treasure’ of 1356 sesterces, and other 18 people, mainl ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 5, 4, 4) Ingredients:
- 250 g dry peas
- Ground pepper
- 1 tblsp lovage
- 1 tblsp dill
- 2 fresh scallion (or 1/2 onion)
- Liquamen (or soya sauce or broth)
- 4 tblsp red wine (like dry Marsala)
- 4 eggs
Instructions:
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Put the dry peas in water all night long and rinse it repeatedly. Then cook it until skimmed. Mesh pepper, lovage, dill, scallion moistened with Liquamen; add wine and Liquamen to taste: stir in a sauce pan with the peas to combine; beat 4 eggs, and combine them with the peas, place on the ... continue
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.