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the latter-day ruin of Pompeii


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Summary: Pompeii and Herculeum wither under indifference of national gov't, EU, and UNESCO bureaucracies. The best of what you see now are the product of past extraordinary caretakers and administrators and present foreign donors, but they are out of the picture in a bleak future. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/04/...uin-of-pompeii/

 

In my recent visit, Pompeii was appallingly degraded except for a couple isolated examples; even most roads were closed so that there was only one choked walkway to connect the 2 most popular ends of the site. Herculeum was actually improved from my last visit, but the donor activity responsible will end and much stuff is alarmingly exposed to weather.

 

dogs ramble around, crapping where they see fit. The great majority of the houses are in such decay that people aren
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