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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any…

— David Gilmour

Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Naples and Pompeii Today we took the express train south to Naples. The guide on our city tour pointed out some of the magnificent…

— Lisa Halvorsen

“in English and Arabic. Clearly, even personal shoppers had him pegged as a complete geek. The shopper also managed to find some supplies for…

— Rick Riordan

“ Buried Cities During the Roman Empire, wealthy Romans took vacations in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The people in these towns did…

— Jean F. Blashfield

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off…

— Louis Aragon

“The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year. They glowed in their arbours of burnished green leaf like lanterns, flickering up there among…

— Lawrence Durrell

“We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped…

— Kevin James Moore

“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines; they aren't…

— Elizabeth Wilson

“The ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz