Pompeii Miscellaneous.
1893 advert by
Giorgio Sommer. In addition to photography he also produced bronze and
terracotta replicas of items in Italian museums and the excavations.
Some of these copies
were used to replace the originals in Pompeii that had been taken to the museum
or storage.
V.1.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 1, atrium. Pedestal on impluvium where a replica of the bronze bull, made by Sommer to replace the original, stood.
Plaque with name of Giorgio E. Sommer of Piazza Vittoria 6 bis NAPOLI records this.
Grand Hotel Suisse, Pompeii, c.19th century. Hotel near entrance. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Diomede Hotel, Pompeii. 1905. Hotel near entrance. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Diomede Hotel, Pompeii. Advertisement dated c.1900’s. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Diomede Hotel, Pompeii. Advertisement dated c.1900’s. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Valle di Pompei,
Stazione della ferrovia elettrica. Undated photo. Courtesy of Rick Bauer.
1929 map of Pompeii by Engelmann showing railway station, hotels and
Porta Marina entrance.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Disused
Pompeii Scavi station on the line from Naples to Salerno. 2010. Photo courtesy
of Rick Bauer.
1929 map of
Pompeii by Engelmann showing old Circumvesuviana railway station, restaurant
and old Porta Nola entrance.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Old Porta Nola entrance to Pompeii Scavi and old restaurant building. June 2010. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
The station was opened with the line in 1904 and was known as Pompei, then Pompei Scavi and then Pompei Valle.
Originally it had a small passenger building with ticket office, from which it was possible to access the area of archaeological excavations.
Its isolated position lead to poor usage and, after the station building was demolished, traveler movement became almost nil and it was closed in the early 2000s.
See http://www.lestradeferrate.it/63pompei/63pompeiv.htm
Old Porta Nola entrance booth. June 2010. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii. 1905. House near entrance, with wording below. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii. 1905. Wording on rear of above photograph “Pompei. House buried in lava – (only upper storey of 3 above present level).”
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, 2nd February 1924. Photo taken near the ruins of Pompeii,
unspecified location.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
1927 press photo of visit to Pompeii by Mussolini.
TICKETS, 1917 – 2013.
Pompeii, 1917 ticket. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, 1920 ticket. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, Porta Nolana 1922 ticket. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, Porta Nolana 1922 ticket. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, ticket but date unknown (6 lire instead of 5 lire or 2.50 lire, presumably after 1922)
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii ticket dated
2nd February 1924. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii ticket
(reverse side) dated 2nd February 1924. Photo courtesy of Rick
Bauer.
Pompeii entrance ticket dated 5 Aug 1924 on the rear.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Porta Marina entrance ticket dated 13 Apr 193(?), the last digit is unclear. Entry fee was 75 Lire.
The "Serie B" ticket below (printed as Lire 100 but over-stamped
Lire 150) is dated 18 Sep 1932.
That would suggest a date range of 1930-31 for this "Series
A" ticket.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii. A "Serie B" ticket dated 18 Sep 1932, printed
as Lire 100 but over-stamped as Lire 150.
Pompeii, 30 March 1937 Porta Nola ticket. Front of ticket. 5 Lire.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii, 30 March 1937 Porta Nola ticket. Rear of ticket.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.7.32 Pompeii. 1939 Tourism postcard entitled “Pompei by night”.
Looking north along the east side.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii di Notte ticket dated 1944. Entry fee was 2.50 Lire. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii supplementary ticket dated 1944. Entry fee was 5 Lire. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Entrance ticket dated 10th October 1973. Entry fee was 150 Lire.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Entrance ticket dated 24th August 1997. Entry fee was 12.000 Lire.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Entrance ticket 3rd September 2004. Entry fee was 10 Euro.
Pompeii Entrance ticket dated 4th June 2013. Entry fee was 11 Euro.
Char-a-banc ticket c.1900 found inside an old Pompeii guide book.
The original owners had jotted down notes in the margin of the book outlining what they had seen during their trip to Pompeii.
They had also pressed three leaves inside the book. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Autostrada Napoli - Pompei return ticket for a motorcycle dated July 1952.
The cost was 50 Lire, of which 4.6 Lire was IGE.
The “Imposta Generale sulle Entrate” or “general tax on revenue” was introduced in 1940 and superseded by VAT in 1973.
1938 ticket for Vesuvius. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
1939. Ticket for Strada Automobilistica Vesuvio. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
The road was built by the Matrone brothers to reach the Great Cone of
Vesuvius from the Boscotrecase slope.
The Matrone road was built by the engineer Gennaro Matrone, following the
Royal Concession of 13 June 1892.
Destroyed and almost erased by the violent eruptions of Vesuvius several
times, the road was rebuilt in 1918, when it became paved and the cars could
cover the 8.5 Km to the piazzale at an altitude of
one thousand meters.
In 1924 Aurelio Matrone had a house built for the caretaker and the ticket
office (now the forestry station).
After nearly thirty years of work, various destructions made by sudden lava
flows and subsequent reconstructions, the road was inaugurated on 4 January
1927.
It is now a walking track in the Vesuvius National Park.
Time-table from the 1900’s. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876, cover. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Pompeii Scafati 1876. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.