Welcome to Hotel Bristol, Pompei
This modern hotel is not far from the town center and the archaeological area, and it's quite close to the Santuario.
Family-run, it offers both courteous and personalized service in a relaxed and welcoming ambience. Guest rooms are large and simply appointed, with large modern bathrooms -- both bed- and bathrooms are tiled. They also have a few double rooms, which are suitable for families.
Facilities: Restaurant; bar; babysitting; business center; concierge; room service
Millionaie saves La Scala
Luxury shoemaker Tod's pledged 5.2 million euros (£4.6 million) on Thursday to fund Milan's La Scala opera house and urged others in the private sector to come to the rescue of Italy's cash-starved cultural treasures.
Earlier this year, Tod's put 25 million euros on the table to fund the restoration of Rome's Colosseum.
Its chief executive said on Thursday he was trying to get other Italian businessmen together to fund the country's cultural heritage, whose funding is diminished in the age of fiscal austerity ushered in by a global financial crisis.
Author: Pompeii needs Balance
A bestselling author on Pompeii, Italy, says the collapse of a ruin illustrates the need for balance between preservation and allowing visitors at such sites.
Robert Harris, author of the 2003 bestseller, "Pompeii," said he was not surprised at Saturday's collapse of the 2,000-year-old gladiator school, in light of the number of people visiting the UNESCO world Heritage site and the lack of funding provided to preserve it, ANSA reported Monday.
"We are faced with a paradox: the more people visit Pompeii, the more Pompeii is destroyed," Harris said.
Panic over 'House of the Gladiator'
Pompeii mayor Claudio D'Alessio does not want to go down in history linked with Pliny the Younger, the Roman who chronicled the destruction of the ancient city nearly 2,000 ago in an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
"The city is suffering and losing its pieces," said D'Alessio as he stood near the Via dell' Abbondanza, the main street leading from the columns of the Forum in the ancient city that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Rain causes Pompeii Damage
40-foot stretch of garden wall ringing an ancient house in Pompeii gave way this week after days of torrential rain, the latest structure to collapse at the popular archaeological site.
A few weeks ago, Italy was embarrassed when a frescoed house, the Schola Armaturarum, where gladiators prepared for combat, was reduced to a pile of stones and dust in seconds. Earlier this year, another building,...
