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Don Carlos, a descendant of Louis XIV who saw himself as a southern Sun King — with Caserta Palace as his Versailles — is best remembered for launching the excavations of Pompeii in 1748.
Another world unto itself, the exhilarating chaos of Naples commands its magnificent bay, the visible isles of Ischia and Capri, and the ruins of Pompeii in the shadow of Vesuvius, its still active volcano.
Herculaneum is smaller (only a fraction has been recovered) and less renowned than Pompeii, but its very compactness and better preservation give a more immediate sense of the shape and ambience of a whole Roman town, this one just 7 km (4 1/2 miles) from Vesuvius.
Their weapons and armor, along with Pompeii’s more fragile works of art, are exhibited at Naples’ Archaeological Museum (see page 173), which is an invaluable adjunct to your visit to Pompeii or Herculaneum.
At the Stabian Baths (Thermae Stabianae), Pompeii’s largest, you can see the separate men’s and women’s facilities, changing rooms, with clothes-locker niches, and three baths: cold, lukewarm, and hot (frigidarium, tepidarium, and calidarium).