Excellent place to walk and take a guided tour. I used a separate tour company that provided a 10…read moreperson tour with an actual archeologist. This site is in much better condition than Pompei so you get a better feeling for daily life and the layout of an ancient city. You can also take a self guided tour with a headset or just walk around by yourself. Prices are very reasonable. Parking is a breeze and cost 6€. Entrance ticket was €11 per person. The gift shop is excellent. Bathrooms near the gift shop and at the beginning do the tour. There are gift shops in the parking lot but they are very much tourist in nature. Save your parking ticket and take it with you. You pay when you leave BEFORE you get to your car.

Ercolano was the other city disseminated by the unforgiving lava of Mount Vesuvius. Archaeological…read moreexcavations are still underway. Neighboring this historical city is the modern city, literally across the street. A self-guided walking tour takes you down through layers of the ancient city. You can only imagine what was considered their sophisticated lifestyle in their time. The swampy waterways are open and visible; currently occupied by ribbiting frogs. There are hundreds of 'houses' where observers can mentally picture where one would place furniture if it were their place today. Unfortunately, these aren't habitable. Some homes restrict the number of entrants. Ancient art is everywhere: in the tiles, on the walls, along and within the building structures, and on some artifacts. All of these unintentionally left-behind... including their own remains of human bones.

Hello. I wanted to share something that happened at the il garage dei mille in Naples, Italy, which…read moreis right next to the Piazza Giuseppi Garibaldi, and pretty much the center of Naples. Great location. About 3 weeks ago we pulled into the garage in the afternoon, got our luggage and walked around the corner to check into our hotel. All quite uneventful. The next day I walked around the corner to the garage, while my wife was getting our luggage ready. The man at the garage, Guiseppi (Joseph) got my car quickly and pulled it right in front of me. I paid him, thanked him, then my wife and I were on the way to our next destination. A perfect parking experience. Later that evening I got an email from the garage saying that they found my wallet. No big deal, since in it was only my Passport, my Driver License, my International Driver License, all my credit cards, my travel medical insurance documents, my house key back home, and a bunch of cash! The thing is - he did not have my email address or my address or where we were staying or my cell phone number. I later learned that he contacted my cc company, he searched the Internet, all to no avail. He then contacted my rental car company (he didn't know which company it was but did have my rental car license plate. Finally, he was able to obtain my email from the rental car company after explaining the whole situation. My wife and I went back the following day and I got everything. Could you imagine if I had lost all of that at the beginning of a 3-week trip to Italy? I gave him a small reward, but he said he was only interested in making sure all of it got back to me and that part made him very happy. I wish I could give him a 10!!!! It's just too bad more people and more businesses aren't like this, since the world would be a much better place. THANK YOU AGAIN VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!