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Around the bay under Vesuvius, this is the road through the eruption of 79 AD — Pliny sailing toward the ash, the Villa of the Papyri with its carbonized library, the streets of Pompeii, and the imperial villa at Oplontis. The frescoes survived; the towns did not.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.