Villa Arianna and Villa San Marco

Ville d’Otium is where Romans went in order to relax and enjoy the benefits of the place.

Even now you can visit their living rooms,dining room, atrium but also admire the sea and the Vesuvius from their own windows or walk on their own geometric mosaic while surrounded by red, yellow and blue frescos with butterflies, fantastic animals or mythological creatures.

Here you feel like living all the spiritual and physical Roman relieves, instead of the volcanic tragedy which actually appears as a sweet dormancy.

Imperial Villa with refined decorations

Villa Poppaea Sabina, in the name of the second wife of Nero, is part of UNESCO’s intangible world heritage, because of its luxurious residential structure and thermal baths-both full of frescos. It is the classical example of Otium Villa because it was built in order to take advantage of the healty weather near the cost which helped them reinforce their spirit and  body.

The buildings is embellished by fantastic pictorial decoration in Pompeian style but also by white marble  sculpture in the garden or in the thermal baths. In Crassius Tertius  Villa, a lot of amphora, weights and furnishings were found; that’s why they think this structure was used as a store of the surrounding agricultural products.

A part of the place was reserved for the dominus- the owner- as a huge number of frescos, jewelry and parts of more than 54 human bodies testify.

Vesuvius dominates the beautiful gulf of Naples and it is the most known volcano in the world which still attracts the mass media attention.

The itinerary starts from 1000m high and it finish at 1175m. We also go through some hairpinturn from which the view is fascinating. What is extraordinary is observing the previous lava flow really near your position.

Duringour climb, we can notice the old Somma Volcano which is separated from Vesuvius by Gigante Valley. We walk along the crater until we arrive at Capannuccia: here, we start climbing down.

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Vesuvius, Stabiae and Oplonti

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