Twenty minutes from the Colosseum lies a Roman city frozen in its final day. Ostia Antica was the harbour of ancient Rome, a bustling port where grain from Egypt and wine from Gaul entered the empire. Today you can walk its streets and step inside taverns, apartments, baths, and temples that still stand with their […]
The Bay of Naples stretches in a blue arc from the Sorrentine Peninsula to Cape Miseno, framed by the smoking cone of Mount Vesuvius. This Italian coastline offers a compendium of family-friendly attractions packed into a compact area. Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman cities buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, provide a history lesson that […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Nature, Sea Sites, Sights, Sights
The ancient Greek temples of Paestum rise from the flat plains of Campania with a presence that seems to belong to another age. Three Doric temples, among the best-preserved in the Greek world, stand in a row against the backdrop of the mountains, their honey-coloured limestone glowing in the afternoon light. Paestum was originally a […]
Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world, the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one of […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Mountains, Nature, Nature, Rome, Sights
Salamis is the most important archaeological site in Cyprus, a vast ancient city on the island’s eastern coast near Famagusta that served as the capital of Cyprus for over a thousand years, from the late Bronze Age through the Roman and Byzantine periods. Today, Salamis is a hauntingly beautiful expanse of ruins stretching along the […]
