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singing lessons and seats
at Teatro San Carlo (%081
797 23 31; www.teatrosancarlo.
it; Via San Carlo 98; hbox JUSTIN FOULKES/LONELY PLANET ©
office 10am-5.30pm Mon-Sat,
to 2pm Sun; gR2 to Via San
Carlo) were obligatory.
Then there were the
myths of Virgil and
Dante to explore at Lago
d’Averno and Campi
Flegrei (the Phlegrean
Fields). After the discovery
of Pompeii (%081 857 53
47; www.pompeiisites.org;
entrances at Porta Marina, Pi-
azza Esedra & Piazza Anfiteatro;
ITALY 1 GRAND TOuR
adult/reduced €13/7.50, incl
Herculaneum €22/12; h9am-
7.30pm summer, to 5pm winter)
in 1748, the unfolding
drama of a Roman town
in its death throes drew
throngs of visitors. Then,
as now, it was the most
popular tourist sight in
Italy and its priceless
mosaics, frescoes and
colossal sculptures filled
the Museo Archeologico
Nazionale (%081 442 21 49;
http://cir.campania.beniculturali.
it/museoarcheologiconazionale;
Piazza Museo Nazionale 19;
adult/reduced €8/4; h9am-
7.30pm Wed-Mon; mMuseo,
Piazza Cavour).
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