Street scenes

Many of the buildings appear to have been two stores. Pics. 1 and 2 are of the streets. Pic. 3 is of a walkway from the port area up to the town level. It is very narrow.

In hind sight a guide may have been useful with only 2 hours. The audio guide provided a wealth of information but I probably needed 2-3 more hours to hear everything. Maybe more.

Herculaneum is only partially excavated. The current town sits over much of it. In addition preservation of the ruins becomes a problem once they are unburied. It seemed that many areas were closed while we were there. It may have been because more work is done on it during the off-season. Entrance was free today due to it being a holiday and there were many school groups. I don't know if a regular paid admission would have had access to more.