Example sentences for: pompeii

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  • 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.

  • An even more famous death occurred at the nearby Piazza del Biscione, more precisely the restaurant Da Pancrazio, whose cellar shelters ruins of Pompeii’s Theater where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

  • In the northeast corner is the large, originally covered market (macellum), while in the southwest corner is the Basilica, the largest building in Pompeii.

  • "Virtual Pompeii" recently had a glitch-ridden run at the M.H.

  • 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).


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