Several walls of the ancient city of Pompeii near Naples in Italy have collapsed in recent days, including part of the wall of the Temple of Venus, the administration of that archaeological site announced today, without specifying the causes.
The site of Pompeii has recently been without a manager, warned Antonio Irlando, a representative of the non-governmental organization Observatory of Cultural Heritage.
The workers who maintain the site say today that two meters of the recently reconstructed wall collapsed, and that on Sunday, the arch of the Temple of Venus and part of the wall of a tomb collapsed.
Both damaged areas of Pompeii are closed to visitors.
The new Minister of Culture, Dario Franceskini, has scheduled a meeting for this Sunday due to the damage to the site, which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) put on the World Heritage List in 1997. The meeting will also discuss the restoration, which is financed by the European Union with 105 million euros.
In the last three years in Pompeii, the pillar of a house that had been preserved until then collapsed, and then parts of the wall of the House of Gladiators.
Pompeii was founded in the 700th century BC and for XNUMX years - until the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano, which covered it with ash, burned it and petrified it, Samnites, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans lived there.
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