Pompei

On Sunday morning we catch the Circumvesuviana train till Pompei, we get off, we cross the road and we are in a place that dates back thousands of years ago.
We start a guided tour of the town, that town whose existance has been threatened by the eruption of the Vesuvio in the 78 A.D.
It's really astonishing to see how everything has been preserved, how it still stands there without having been damaged by the passing of the time.
We reach the top of the town where the ancient forus stands and we imagine the ancient orators talking to the population...
From this square a lot of streets and little markets depart... We can walk along Via dell'abbondanza or decide to go and give a a look at the ancient market of the wool or of the meat and fish or the ancient temple.
We go to see the ancient baths where beautiful mosaics and frescos are preserved. It is interesting to observe also the method they used in order to convey cold and warm water to the different pools. We give a look at the plant of their houses and it's surprising to see how they were also well depicted on my books at school.
Then we reach the old theatres: the biggest and the smallest one...that can still be use for rapresentations and concerts.
From the top we can see also the squared portico, whose complete view stands here:

The guided tour is over but we go on walking and visiting houses and the most famous brothel of the town, the district of the bakers where original oven and grinders still stand there, the House of Nerone's second wife and Iside's temple. Our final goal is the Amphitheatre that is perfectly preserved and whose grandeur astonishes you.

Time at disposal is over and we have also lost the last train back to Naples, so we have to walk till the centre of Pompei to find out an alternative solution. While waiting for the train, we decide to go and drink something to restore and we taste our first 
SFOGLIATELLA, just one to be divided but it's so delicious that you would like to have another one.
Hereby there is also an important noteworthy Sanctuary, seat of the Papal delegation that dates back to the end of the 19th century. 
When you are on holiday, everything is allowed and so tonight we finish our dinner with 

TORTA CAPRESE

Ingredients:
250g butter;
5 eggs;
250g dark chocolate;
20g sugar
300g blanched almonds.

Break into pieces both almonds and chocolate and melt bain-marie the chocolate till it gets  smooth and without lumps. Let it cool down for a while.
In a food processor mix the butter and half the sugar and add the yolks. As soon as the  chocolate has cooled down, add it to the mixture.
Move it in a large bowl, add the almonds. Whip the egg whites until stiff (add a pinch of salt) and add with delicacy the sugar mixing from below.
Put the compound in a previously greased pan and put it in the oven 180° for 45 minutes paying attention to the centre of the cake that could seem hardened but it's not!