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Our journey takes us along the coast road through Castellammare di Stabia and out along the motorway to Herculaneum. Herculaneum was destroyed along with Pompei in 79 AD,
and was rediscovered in 1709. It was a residential town without Pompei's commercial importance, surrounded by the villas of wealthy Romans. When the catastrophe of 79 AD occurred Herculaneum was submerged under a torrent of mud and lava that hardened into a soft tufathat preserved many of the wooden parts of houses and objects which you can seen today.