Deluxe Triple

This was the beginning of the disaster. Within a few hours, the volcano released an impressive amount of pyroclastic material that would change the landscape of the Vesuvian area forever. Herculaneum was first struck by fiery clouds with a temperature of around 400°C, traveling at a speed of over 80 km/h, and then by mudflows that buried the city under a blanket of volcanic material about 20 meters thick. A place of memory that, as Amedeo Maiuri said, "should be considered as a city and not as a mine of works of art, a smaller city, different from Pompeii, but no less important, with its urban physiognomy, its civilisation and, above all, its human face". Un luogo della memoria che, come affermava già Amedeo Maiuri, “va considerata come una città e non come una miniera di opere d’arte, una città minore e diversa da Pompei, ma non per questo meno importante, con la sua fisionomia urbanistica, con la sua civiltà e, quel che più importa, con il suo volto umano”.