Just inside Nocera gate and walls our modern mainstreets beyond outer reaches can be seen with many bodies discovered fleeing beneath those hollow cavities.
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Gps Coordinates / 40.7494571,14.4933077
Pompei Roman Ruins VR Archeology Garden Of The Fugitives
PFXV+Q8M Pompei, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
The insula once contained more town houses than the two which stand at the northwestern end of the insula but the rest of the area had been largely converted into a vegetable garden and vineyard before the eruption, with a triclinium covered by a pergola for outdoor banquets.
Gps Coordinates / 40.7493619,14.4938192
The garden is situated near the Large Palaestra and just inside the Nocera gate.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link 40.7490183 / Gps Link 14.4928228 / Gps Link 40.7487827
Gps Coordinates / 40.7490183,14.4933663 / 40.7496037,14.4928228 / 40.7487827,14.4939374
Today it has been extensively and carefully replanted to represent the original contents.
Link Location Gps / Gps Link 40.7488138 / Gps Link 40.7488301 / Gps Link 40.7488627
Gps Coordinates / 40.7488138,14.4940466 / 40.7488301,14.4941015 / 40.7488627,14.4942218
The victims were adults and children, several found close together and others scattered over the area.
Gps Coordinates / 40.7486898,14.4934734
They died apparently while trying to find a way out of the Nocera Gate, as they were above the layer of pumice that had already reached a height of 3.5 m, and were caught by the pyroclastic flow which was fatal.
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