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| Achelous travel - Campolieto Villa, Herculaneum |
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The article you are about to read is the result of a long and detailed historical research. We hope that the wait is rewarded by the information that we provide and that we consider very interesting.
The area that we want to introduce is the so-called " Golden Mile", the stretch of road lined with beautiful baroque villas ( Vesuvian Villas ), who comes from Naples to Torre Annunziata , via Portici and Ercolano. In Naples
700 becomes the Enlightenment cultural center of Europe, a place that attracts for its natural beauty and the charm of myth and history.
In 1738 the Bourbon royal family and many noble families choose to Portsmouth and the surrounding areas, to build the new palace and aristocratic palaces, simultaneously with the beginning of the excavations at Herculaneum.
In this period was born the concept of cultural tourism modern to complete their education, young European aristocrats, intellectuals, diplomats, attend the "Grand Tour " educational trip in search the testimonies of antiquity and the classics Greece and Rome. Naples was the last and most attractive Italian venue. Arriving in Naples, the journey was often no return because the traveler fell in love with the place so much that he decided to stay there forever. It 's the case of Lord William Beckett, who fell madly in love Ravello and stayed there forever.
Today it is not easy to retrieve the size of wonder and curiosity that characterizes the protagonists of the Grand Tour, but you can still visit some places where you can share intense emotions such as those described by Goethe in his "Italian Journey":
" (...) You'll never really adjusted to give an idea of \u200b\u200bthis sea, this bay, this Vesuvius of this city with its suburbs, and with its castles, and above all of this air we breathe. (...) How to describe the magnificence of the streets, squares, gardens, the sea, when illuminated by the moonlight, as I see them lit up tonight? Are taken from the vertigo of infinite space, and the sweet charm my mind is dreaming things that only you can dream here. "- Wolfgang Goethe
To relive those emotions back over the Golden Mile: the Royal Palace Portici , Villa Campolieto and Villa Ruggiero Herculaneum, and all the other houses nearby, we will report at the time of the Bourbons and their court. We can not fail to visit the archaeological excavations of Herculaneum and Oplontis, and the famous ruins of Pompeii to be fascinated by the myth of Roman classicism.
Interesting in this area, Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum, a center of culture and technology applied to the history. We conclude
our journey with an ascent to cone of Vesuvius , to get to the cause of so much death and destruction, and yet so much history.
Contact us and we will help you design and live that dream.
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| Achelous travel - The archaeological excavations of Pompeii and Vesuvius |
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