{"id":2924,"date":"2023-04-18T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seepompeii.com\/?post_type=luoghi&p=2924"},"modified":"2023-11-04T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:27:57","slug":"the-garden-of-the-fugitives-of-pompeii","status":"publish","type":"luoghi","link":"https:\/\/seepompeii.com\/en\/luoghi\/the-garden-of-the-fugitives-of-pompeii\/","title":{"rendered":"The garden of the fugitives of Pompeii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The garden of the fugitives <\/strong>represents the harshest and most real testimony to the immense tragedy that befell Pompeii that distant October 24, 79 AD.
Here, in fact, as many as 13 bodies of the victims of the tremendous eruption that struck Pompeii were found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That day, around 1 p.m., Pompeiians were suddenly overwhelmed by a thick shower of ash and lapilli that began to erupt from Mount Vesuvius. To them, Vesuvius was simply a mountain and not a volcano, and they never imagined that it would erupt with such violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within hours Pompeii found itself submerged first by a shower of ash and lapilli and then later overwhelmed by a powerful pyroclastic flow. Its inhabitants did not even have time to escape to safety, many dying as a result of the roofs of their houses falling in, others being run over by the powerful pyroclastic flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is from this unsuccessful attempt to escape that the garden of the fugitives, found after excavations begun in 1748, is named only in 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery was exceptional and the bodies of the victims were reconstructed thanks to the cast method developed by director Giuseppe Fiorelli.<\/p>\n\n\n