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3/10/2011

Pompei

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Pompei (ponpei )

***** Location: Italy
***** Season: Non-seasonal Topic
***** Category: Earth


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Explanation


Pompei is a city and comune in the province of Naples in Campania, southern Italy, famous for its ancient Roman ruins.

The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for over 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749.

Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year.
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HAIKU


ポンペイの蜥蜴はいつも濡れてゐる  
ponpei no tokage wa itsumo nurete iru

the lizards
of Pompei
are always wet


Iwabuchi Kiyoko 岩淵喜代子

(The Japanese is written like one sentence.)


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Pompei Lizzard
Pompei is famous for its many lizzards.


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Related words


***** Lizzard, Tokage

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