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Now that the year is about to end and one thinks about past events, Pompeii can be a good example of what could have been and not to be. A prospere city and with a great and promising future, and overnight everything met destroyed by the most powerful force of all ... the mother nature. Sometimes it would be woth thinking just even for a while in what we really are.

About Pompeii:
Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples and Caserta in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, its sister city, Pompeii was destroyed, and completely buried, during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in AD 79.

The volcano collapsed higher roof-lines and buried Pompeii under many meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is both one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with 2,571,725 visitors in 2007, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Best wishes for the New Year for everybody.

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