Breakfast at the hotel

We had breakfast at the hotel before checking out the town.

Sunrise on the coastline of Sorrento

These pictures were taken at the hotel.

Dinner at the hotel

We had our buffet dinner at the hotel.

  The restaurant is on a terrace overlooking the Gulf of Naples

We managed to catch the sunset while having our dinner

Grand Hotel Capodimonte Sorrento

We spent 2 nights here.We were certainly impressed by its size and the views of  the town of Sorrento, Mount Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples.

Our room

Guess who is the photographer?

The Gulf of Naples

Sorrento, the town

Mount Vesuvius

The long corridor to the swimming pool

The Gulf of Naples

The gulf is on the south western coast of Italy. It faces Sorrento  with Naples to the north and Mount Vesuvius to the east.

Mount Vesuvius

The town of Sorrento

Pompeii : House of the Faun

This house was built in the 2nd century BC and probably belonged to a rich statesman.

The Dancing Faun

(We bought a copy of this little statue as a souvenir)

Roman mosaic

The Alexander mosaic depicting the Battle of Issus in 333 BC

This piece of important evidence shows that English was widely spoken in Pompeii

Pompeii : Temple of Apollo

This temple was built in honour of the Greek and Roman god Apollo. It is the oldest structure in Pompeii.

The pillars were built in multiple layers

Pompeii : Temple of Jupiter

The temple structure had been built in 150 BC to dominate the forum, and it became Pompeii's main temple after the Roman conquest.

Mount Vesuvius

Pompeii : The Human Casts

The human casts are not real bodies.The early excavators had noticed, as they dug through the volcanic debris that covered Pompeii, a series of distinctive cavities in the lava, sometimes containing human bones. This is because the material from the volcano had covered the bodies of the dead, setting hard and solid around them. As the flesh, internal organs and clothing gradually decomposed, a void was left - which was an exact negative imprint of the shape of the corpse at the point of death.

Pompeii : Kitchen

This house has a big kitchen. 

A water container

An oven

Cooking pits

Pompeii : Lupanar

Lupanar is Latin for brothel. The erotic images on the walls were advertisements for the services offered.

A room where services were rendered

A toilet in the lupanar