The area of the ancient beach of Herculaneum has been reopened after long and complex works as it was at the time of the terrible eruption in 79 AD. Now visitors to the Archaeological Park will be able to walk along the ancient seafront area of the ancient city, rediscovering how it was at the time the ancient Herculaneum
Great news in the Herculaneum archaeological park where the renovation work was completed of the ancient city beach, connected to the excavations, and the ancient Herculaneum beach was thus opened to the public. Now the Herculaneum Archaeological Park has an image as close as possible to what it looked like before the eruption.
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Park visitors they will be able to walk freely across the entire surface and immerse yourself in the magic of the city lapped by the sea and, once the complex works in progress have been completed, there will be the reunion of the Herculaneum archaeological park with the Villa dei Papiri achieving an extraordinary objective.
Very complex works to restore the ancient beach
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Over time the area of the ancient city beach had transformed into a sort of marsh but the complex works carried out made it possible to create an area accessible to visitors and valorisation of the sea front of the ancient city rediscovering an exceptional area of ancient Herculaneum.
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With the opening of the new excavation area comes thus the landscape of 79 AD was restored all visitors will be able to walk on the beach. It should not be forgotten that in the same place more than 300 citizens of Herculaneum of the time, mostly refugees inside of some warehouses linked to the landing place, they gathered in vain hoping to be saved by the ships of admiral Pliny the Elder who died during the enterprise. The works will now continue to rejoin the beach with the area of the new excavations where the Villa dei Papiri is located”. The work was carried out thanks to the public-private partnership with the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI)
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