Pompeii Forum

Here are some pictures of the Forum in Pompeii. At the far end is the Temple of Jupiter. In the distance is Mount Vesuvius. I have been playing around with HDR photography; a couple of the the images below are pseudo-HDR images. The first two are a pair, the HDR version and the standard version. Which do you prefer?

Forum, Temple of Jupiter, and Mount Vesuvius. HDR version.

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Forum, Temple of Jupiter, and Mount Vesuvius. Standard version.

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Forum, Temple, and Mount V. (stylized HDR)

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Forum and Temple.

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Caught in time

A large number of holes were found in the volcanic deposits around Pompeii that represented corpses of people and animals that were buried by the hot ash. The ash lithified before the corpses decayed so that a good mold of the deceased remained. Early in the excavation it was discovered that filling these molds with plaster produced remarkable casts of the victims of the eruption. Here are three of those casts:

Sleeping or taking cover, I don't know.

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A horse?

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You decide what he was doing.

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The alcove

We don't know what this is. The whole area was completely roped off so you couldn't go in and see it, and it had no mention in the map or guide.

Maybe it was a temple? A Macaroni Grill?

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Close-up of that thing.

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Temple of Apollo

Carol played hide-and-go-seek in the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii.

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Vesuvius

We spent several days in the Amalfi Coast region. One day we took a trip to Pompeii. Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. This is the picture of Vesuvius from our hotel balcony in Sorrento. Take a look at Vesuvius from above.

Vesuvius across the Gulf of Naples

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Orvieto Train Station

We took the train from Orvieto in Tuscany to Naples. Here are a couple of pictures of the train station.

Going North.

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Smoking is sexy.

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Assisi

Out and about in Assisi.

The Temple of Minerva.

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Up the street after leaving the restaurant.

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Inside the upper part of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. They announced over the PA system "no photography" after I took this picture, so I didn't take any more in the Basilica.

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