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The Archeological site of Herculaneum (in Italian: Scavi di Ercolano) is the area south of the town centre of modern Ercolano where the Roman town of Herculaneum has been excavated. Herculaneum was destroyed and buried by lava and mud during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79 together with Pompeii , Stabiae and Oplontis .
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(in Italian) Stazioni del Mondo: Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri 40°44′55″N 14°28′52″E / 40.74861°N 14.48111°E / 40.74861; 14 This article about an Italian railway station is a stub .
Pompei Scavi services the main entrance to Pompeii ETR 211 Metrostar. Circumvesuviana (Italian pronunciation: [ˌtʃirkuɱvezuˈvjaːna]) is a railway network in the east of the Naples metropolitan area, previously run by a company of the same name, now operated by Ente Autonomo Volturno.
Circumvesuviana is a railway company operating services in the East of the Naples metropolitan area. Electrically powered throughout, the system uses the narrow gauge of 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) and operates 142 km (88 mi) of route on six lines. It is entirely separate from other national and regional railway lines.
Lanciani's great work was the production of a map of the ancient city of Rome, a "unique work within the genre". [9] It shares the (modern) name of the ancient (Severan) marble map, the Forma Urbis Romae. It is a set of 46 detailed maps of ancient Rome, issued in 1893–1901. The maps measure 25 by 36 inches, at a scale of 1:1000.
A Naples Circumvesuviana train arrives at Pompei-Scavi in 2004. Most narrow-gauge railways in Italy were built with Italian metre gauge, which is actually 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) because historically the Italian track gauge was defined from the centres of the rail instead of the internationally accepted method of measuring the gauge from the inside edges of the rails.
The entire Circumvesuviana network carries about 70,200 travelers a day for a total of nearly 26 million passengers a year. [8] The network made up of the Circumflegrea and Cumana railways boasts a total length of 47 km and connects the stations of Montesanto, in Naples, and Torregaveta, in Bacoli. It carries about 37,000 travelers a day, for a ...