Herculaneum, Italy Walking Tour in 4K
****You can click on the time links below to skip ahead.****On August 24th, 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted for the first time in centuries. Herculaneum, just 3 miles away from the base of Mt. Vesuvius was spared from initial destruction as the wind carried most of the ash and pumice on to Pompeii. On the following night, the plume of ash above Mt. Vesuvius collapsed causing massive pyroclastic flows that buried both Pompeii and Herculaneum. While most of Pompeii has been excavated. It is estimated that only 25% of Herculaneum has been excavated. The rest lies under the current city of Ercolano.
In this video you will see:
00:00 - The ticket entrance
03:45 - Entrance to the archaeological site (Cardo III)
04:40 - House of Aristides
05:36 - House of Argus
08:26 - House of the Skeleton
12:21 - Lower Decumanus Road
13:03 - Cardo IV
13:11 - House of the Wooden Partition
15:55 - House of the Bronze Herma
16:40 - House of the Inn
19:45 - House of the Mosaic Atrium
20:30 - House of the Alcove
27:13 - Cardo III
27:46 - House of Galba
29:03 -Central Thermae (Roman Baths)
29:35 - Apodyterium (Changing Room)
30:40 - Frigidarium (Cold Room)
31:00 - Tepidarium (Warm Room)
31:54 - Caldarium (Hot Room)
35:15 - College of the Augustales
37:06 - The Decumans Maximus
37:58 - House of the Tuscan Colonnade
39:33 - House of the Black Hall
42:54 - House of the Double Porticos
43:35 - House of the Bicentenary
44:48 - Cardo IV
45:40 - House of the Beautiful Courtyard
46:15 - House of the Neptune Mosaic
47:41 - Wine Shop
48:55 - Samnite House
51:23 - Lower Decumanus Road (Decumanus Inferior)
51:43 - House of the Grand Portal
53:11 - Taberna Vasaria
53:35 - Cardo V
54:38 - Decumanus Maximus
56:42 - Bakery
58:34 - Palaestra (partially excavated)
1:00:14 - Swimming pool
1:03:29 - Cardo V
1:04:22 - House of the Relief of Telephus
1:05:44 - House of the Deer
1:07:40 - Terrace view of the Bay of Naples - Digital edit :)
1:10:51 - Marine Gate
1:11:20 - Terrace of M. Nonius Balbus
1:11:56 - Suburban Baths (outside view only)
1:13:06 - The Sacred Area
1:15:34 - The ancient waterfront (Skeletal Remains in Boathouses)
1:18:20 - Exit up through the lava rock
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Herculaneum, House of the Grand Portal
This house in Herculaneum lies immediately next to the Samnite House. It seems that at some point in the latter house's life, its peristyle garden area was sold or partitioned off to create another property. The House of the Grand or Great Portal was built there, complete with its extravagant entrance. The Samnite House's peristyle wasn't demolished but absorbed into the walls of the new house. The columns can be clearly seen today, embedded in the walls.
Herculaneum. The Samnite House
The 'Samnite House' at Herculaneum is one of the 'old' houses. It went through many phases, all of which saw its original size being cut down. The peristyle was sold off and abosrbed into a new house next door. An upstairs level was created with a balcony to look down over the huge atrium (hall) but the balcony and its columns were filled in so that the new level could be partitioned off as a separate apartment. The house ended up with its huge original hall but only a few small rooms around it. The Samnite House is prescribed content for the UK-based OCR examination board's A-level paper Cities of Roman Italy (CC6).
Herculaneum, House of the Corinthian Atrium
This house lies at the far east end of the most southerly east-west street in Herculaneum. The fauces entrance corridor leads to a hybrid atrium which has a hugely disproportionate impluvium surrounded by columns. In short, this is really a small peristyle and serves as a kind of hybrid atrium-peristyle. In this respect it resembles the House of Apuleius at Ostia (see a film of that house under my user-name) and shows that in a constrained setting this was a convenient solution. Scarcely noticed by most visitors its hybrid nature is also largely ignored in textbooks.
House of Mosaic Atrium
This is a 1:1 scale of the House of the Mosaic Atrium of Herculaneum, Italy.
L. Ceius II house
3D recosntruction of the house of L.Ceius Secundus in Pompei
House of the Gilded cupids, Casa Degli Amorini Dorati, Scavi di Pompei
The villa in Pompeii is 2000 years old and the frescoes are there for all to see....
For many centuries the villa lay under a thick layer of volcanic ash which preserved the building from decay.
During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 the ancient Roman town of Pompeii was buried under many layers of ash only to be discovered about 1700 years later.
It's evident that the Ancient Romans of Biblical times who lived in this villa had a better quality of life than some people living on the planet today.
Palace of Priors, Perugia, Umbria, Italy, Europe
The Palazzo dei Priori is a historical building in Perugia, Umbria, central Italy. As in other Italian medieval communes, it was the seat of the priori. This magistrature was established in Perugia in 1303: the palazzo had been called the Palazzo Nuovo del Popolo to that point. During intractable civic quarrels, a podestà might be established, housed in a separate structure, the Palazzo del Podestà, of which only the Loggia added by Braccio da Montone flanking the Cathedral of San Lorenzo e San Ercolano remains. When the palazzo of this rival to the power of the Priori burned in 1534, significantly, it was not replaced, but fragments from it were incorporated into the archbishop's palace, also fronting the main piazza. The Magistratura dei Priori that was housed in the structure consisted of ten representatives of each of Perugia's main guilds from among the forty-four that existed, permitted a tenure of only two months. The money-changers, who were housed in their own adjoining quarters in the fifteenth century, had the privilege of always being represented among the Priori, and the merchants' guild was represented by two members instead of one. After the Salt War of 1540 with Pope Paul III, the Priori were renamed “Conservatori dell’Ecclesiastica Obbedienza” and, the Palazzo del Podestà having been destroyed, the Palazzo dei Priori became the seat of the Papal Legate, the new governor of Perugia. When Pope Julius III restored the Priori, the grateful Perugini commemorated him with the bronze statue next to the Cathedral. The structure commands the corner where the main artery of medieval Perugia, Corso Vannucci, enters the city's main square; a first section was constructed in 1293-97, at first as the Palatium Novum Populi, the new Palace of the People, with ten bays along the Corso and three facing the piazza. Two more bays and a grand entrance portal were added to the piazza façade in 1333-37, together with the arcaded loggia, where decrees were publicly read. Later in the fourteenth century the palazzo was extended along the Corso, with six bays and a richly carved entrance doorway worthy of a cathedral. Rising above, a tower surmounts and controls the arched access to Via dei Priori, the ancient way that descends to the Etruscan gateway, the Roman Porta Trasimena, which was Christianized as the Arca di S. Luca. A further section down the Corso was built in 1429-43, still keeping to the Gothic tripartite fenestration, to house the Collegio del Cambio, the money exchange that was the financial center of Perugia. The perimeter of the roof was originally crenellated all around, less for actual defensive purposes than as a symbol of Perugia's independence. Significantly, the crenellations were removed in 1610, when Perugia had submitted at last to papal armies. When Perugia was joined to a united Italy, the crenellations were triumphantly restored. The grand portal in the Piazza is surmounted by the city's symbols, the griffin of Perugia and the Imperial Guelf lion, in bronze; the originals were probably cast in the Arsenal of Venice, in 1274, the first European bronze castings in the round achieved since Antiquity. Above the door, strung on a bar hanging from chains the keys to the gates of Siena were triumphantly displayed, following the victory of Perugia at the battle of Torrita, 1358. The portal leads to an austere vaulted undercroft with the stairs leading to the vaulted frescoed Sala of the former council chamber of the Priori on the piano nobile; the Sala was allocated to the notaries guild in 1582, as the Sala dei Notari, when their former quarters, the Palazzetto dei Notari, on the opposite side of the Corso were partially demolished in a street widening. On the left is the entrance to the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria one of the most outstanding provincial Italian collections of art.
Officier de cavalerie romaine
Samnites, ecco come nacque il mito dei gladiatori
UC Minds – Illuminating Samnite Armour
University of Canterbury’s Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities recently hosted a team of researchers from the University of Auckland. Led by Dr. Jeremy Armstrong, this project – supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund – hopes to illuminate the relationship between the military, economy and society in ancient Rome.
The researchers used X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), laser scanning and photogrammetry to test a set of Samnite armour dating to the 4th Century BCE. This testing hopes to unlock the armour’s ancient secrets including its origins, use, effectiveness, and value.
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Places to see in ( Perugia - Italy ) Palazzo dei Priori
Places to see in ( Perugia - Italy ) Palazzo dei Priori
The Palazzo dei Priori is a historical building in Perugia, Umbria, central Italy. As in other Italian medieval communes, it was the seat of the priori. This magistrature was established in Perugia in 1303: the palazzo had been called the Palazzo Nuovo del Popolo (New Palace of the People) to that point. During intractable civic quarrels, a podestà might be established, housed in a separate structure, the Palazzo del Podestà, of which only the Loggia added by Braccio da Montone flanking the Cathedral of San Lorenzo e San Ercolano remains. When the palazzo of this rival to the power of the Priori burned in 1534, significantly, it was not replaced, but fragments from it were incorporated into the archbishop's palace, also fronting the main piazza.
The Magistratura dei Priori that was housed in the structure consisted of ten representatives of each of Perugia's main guilds from among the forty-four that existed, permitted a tenure of only two months. The money-changers, who were housed in their own adjoining quarters in the fifteenth century, had the privilege of always being represented among the Priori, and the merchants' guild was represented by two members instead of one. After the Salt War of 1540 with Pope Paul III, the Priori were renamed “Conservatori dell’Ecclesiastica Obbedienza” (Keepers of Ecclesiastical Obedience) and, the Palazzo del Podestà having been destroyed, the Palazzo dei Priori became the seat of the Papal Legate, the new governor of Perugia. When Pope Julius III restored the Priori, the grateful Perugini commemorated him with the bronze statue next to the Cathedral.
The structure commands the corner where the main artery of medieval Perugia, Corso Vannucci, enters the city's main square; a first section was constructed in 1293-97, at first as the Palatium Novum Populi, the new Palace of the People, with ten bays along the Corso and three facing the piazza. Two more bays and a grand entrance portal were added to the piazza façade in 1333-37, together with the arcaded loggia, where decrees were publicly read. Later in the fourteenth century the palazzo was extended along the Corso, with six bays and a richly carved entrance doorway worthy of a cathedral. Rising above, a tower surmounts and controls the arched access to Via dei Priori, the ancient way that descends to the Etruscan gateway, the Roman Porta Trasimena, which was Christianized as the Arca di S. Luca. A further section down the Corso was built in 1429-43, still keeping to the Gothic tripartite fenestration, to house the Collegio del Cambio, the money exchange that was the financial center of Perugia.
The perimeter of the roof was originally crenellated all around, less for actual defensive purposes than as a symbol of Perugia's independence. Significantly, the crenellations were removed in 1610, when Perugia had submitted at last to papal armies. When Perugia was joined to a united Italy, the crenellations were triumphantly restored.
The grand portal in the Piazza is surmounted by the city's symbols, the griffin of Perugia and the Imperial Guelf lion, in bronze; the originals were probably cast in the Arsenal of Venice, in 1274, the first European bronze castings in the round achieved since Antiquity. Above the door, strung on a bar hanging from chains the keys to the gates of Siena were triumphantly displayed, following the victory of Perugia at the battle of Torrita, 1358.
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Is there a Samnite landscape? Putting Samnite hillforts in place.
To start with, Lidar is a rather new research tool in Central-South Italy. The raw data was produced by the Italian Ministero dell’Ambiente e della tutella del Territorio e del Mare to monitor and control hydrogeological risk. Nevertheless, several areas, less risky or threatening for human habitation were no covered. However these areas are frequently located in the upper valley floors, and are possible the most sensitive zones for archaeologists since the forest covers large areas of this landscape and the accessibility is reduce or no existent at all. We used Lidar data to explore the mountainous and forested regions in order to gain new information about fortified hill tops and hillforts, and their role in the transition from a pre-Roman/ Italic / Samnite landscape to the Roman colonized landscape of Aesernia (modern Isernia).
This paper aims to address the new narratives that the use of new research tools are creating in Central-South Italy. By re-studying known hillforts or by exploring the mountainous landscape using new tools and datasets we aim to gain knowledge about the relevant moment of Romanization and acculturation in Central Italy, an historic territory which was the core of the Samnite society and the scenario of strong Roman influence in the settlement pattern and the effective control of the territory with the presence of new Latin colonies.
I propose a critical inspection of the interpretive capabilities of the new data and how archaeologist are managing, exploiting, and interpreting information produced by old and new techniques, as LiDAR, remote sensing and survey.
Dr. García Sánchez, Jesús - Leiden University (Presenting author)
Herculaneum Casa dei Cervi - www vesuvioweb com
Una dimora nobile e ricca nell'antica città romana di Herculaneum. La cosiddetta Casa dei Cervi. Prende il nome dal rinvenimento di statue di marmo il cui soggetto è la caccia a due cervi. Commento musicale: Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Waltz No.19 in A minor. Realizzazione grafica Aniello Langella 2009.
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[Wikipedia] Timeline of the Samnite Wars
The military campaigns of the Samnite Wars were an important stage in Roman expansion in the Italian Peninsula.
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Stringiamoci per Pompei!!
Domenica 4 maggio 2014 alle ore 10.30, stringiamoci intorno al sito patrimonio dell'umanità,attraverso una catena umana.
Abbracciare Pompei vuol dire ristabilire il patto d'amore che dovremmo stringere col nostro territorio e le sue inestimabili ricchezze. Pompei è il simbolo del nostro territorio,delle nostre ricchezze che vediamo morire,inermi,sotto i colpi della gestione italiana a dir poco criminale.
Non aspettiamo di dover, un giorno, piangere sulle sue macerie.
Salviamo Pompei.
Il 4 maggio noi ci saremo e ti aspettiamo, perché Pompei siamo noi.
Detail of the carbonized beams in the 'College of the Augustales' at Herculaneum
Detail of the carbonized beams in the 'College of the Augustales' at Herculaneum.
Baker's house in Pompei, Italy
Samnite Gladiators
Hello! In this video, Miss. TeachALot teaches you about the Samnite gladiators. Make sure you like this video and subscribe to this channel.