Archeology To Touch

MANN ( MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE+ GREEK DOWNTOWN)

The archeological Museum of Naples offers one of the hughest collection of ancient artecrafts.

The most important Freskos and Mosaic of Pompeij.

The museum hosts extensive collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Their core is from the Farnese Collection,. Among the notable works found in the museum are the Herculaneum papyri, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, found after 1752 in Villa of the Papyri.

The museum's Mosaic Collection includes a number of important mosaics recovered from the ruins of Pompeii and the other Vesuvian cities. This includes the Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BC, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii.

Spaccanapoli is the straight and narrow main street that traverses the old, historic center of the city of Naples, It is her Decumanus Inferior, the lowest east –west connected Road. The entire downtown is nothing else that a chessboard. The name is a popular usage and means, literally, "Naples splitter".