Herculaneum
Herculaneum is a big centre a 15 kilometres from Naples (just 15 minutes from airport of our limousine transfer) and 12 km from Pompei. This city offers more that you could image, in terms of attractions and tourist tour, and our Limousine service will make you discover. Most people are impressed of the destruction of Pompeii that occurred on August 24, 79 b.C. but they dont know that Herculaneum too was destroyed by the same eruption, and that there are ruins in this town too.
History
Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum was a tranquil, up-scale Roman town. Through the ages, the ruins of this once prosperous city have been remarkably well preserved and they are well worth viewing. On the day Vesuvius erupted, Herculaneum was upwind from the volcano. Pompeii was downwind and was quickly buried under a covering of ash. Herculaneum was destroyed more than twelve hours later when the blast cloud collapsed, spouting forth a barrage of searing ash, rock, pumice and volcanic gas.
Our limo drivers suggest...
After you have visited Herculaneum ruins, we suggest to continue the tour through a naturalistic excursion in the Vesuvius National Park. It was founded on the 5 of June, 1995 in order to preserve animal and vegetable species, vegetable and forest associations, geological peculiarities, palaeontological formations, biological communities, biotopes, scenic and panoramic values, natural processes, ecological balances. Even if this excursion will take you longer time, we suggest you to do it because it is an nice experience.