In the province of Naples, on the slopes of Vesuvius Pompei covers an area of 12 sq km. with around 26,000 inhabitants. It 'a modern reality with its tourist facilities, hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, pizzerias, bars, pubs and several shops. It 'a cosmopolitan city, a major destination for tourism from Italy and abroad. Many of these tourists staying in the city not only the visit, but also use as a basis for their trips, and in many nearby tourist resorts, both within easy reach with your vehicle with public transport. In the recent past, Pompeii was twinned with the cities of Latiano in Puglia, Kjongiu (South Korea), Tarragona (Spain) and Xi'an (China). Pompeii rises to the rank of cities on January 9, 2004. The primary characteristic that makes it unique, is to enclose under one name two cities.That ancient pagan buried from about six meters of ash and lapilli following an eruption of Vesuvius, which took place in August 79 AD where many were dead. In the sixteenth century was discovered almost by chance during the construction of an aqueduct and proof of this is placed a plaque near port Nocera.
The town owes its exceptional state of preservation the way in which it was buried. Tonnes of ash, pumice have covered under a layer of over 6 meters preserve it the same time, by most offenses of time. The same pyroclastic materials, united around invested bodies, have kept the mark, allowing archaeologists to refound in attitudes as a result of short but atrocious fears.
ImageThe old Roman who visit today is actually "son" of another, oldest, founded in early sixth century BC by Osci. The Italian city has left many traces of itself. Indeed, it initially inhabited only in the area where is now the forum, extended after taking the plant to rectangular blocks (insulae) still visible. 
Many buildings currently visited were made during the second century BC before Pompeii, following the war that the social opposed to Rome, was conquered by L. Cornelius became a Roman colony Silla (80 BC). Over the years the colony there were some important achievements such as the Baths of the Forum and the Amphitheatre. The current was achieved in the first imperial age, an era which date from the Palestra Grande and public buildings on the east side of the Forum. The latter, surrounded by a portico Image and dominated from the temple of Jupiter, is the heart of the city, its political, administrative and commercial matters. At the Forum opposed the district theaters, beating heart of cultural activities and religious pompeiane, made in the second century BC The activities "games" were placed in large part on the far outskirts where you can visit the Amphitheatre and the Palestra Grande. Of great interest the public baths: those of "Forum" and "Stabiane" visited only in the male section and characterized by alternating of environments temperature gradually increasing (frigidarium, tepidarium and calidarium).
The new Pompeii, Christian, was born thanks to the Blessed Bartolo Longo. Pugliese lawyer of origin that in 1872 had the task by the Countess Marianna De Fusco to administer his property in the Valley of Pompeii. The appearance of Madonna Bartolo Longo pushed to build, among many difficulties and with little money, the Sanctuary, developing around it a city. One of the obstacles which he found was that place from some neighbouring countries, reluctant in divest a portion of its territory to be born the new reality "the new Pompeii." Unfortunately for the arrival of his death, October 5, 1926, Bartolo Longo was unable to attend the birth of the new municipalities that occurred on March 29, 1928, thanks to all'interessamento Brother Adriano who had the merit to continue, with tenacity, the project undertaken by Blessed.
Source: Azienda di Soggiorno Pompei