Select Virtual Tours: Pompeii & Rome In these challenging weeks, we're going to be blogging about some of our favourite educational school trip destinations and excursions so that if you're missing out, you can take part in an educational virtual visit and find out about some of the wonders while safe at home. First up, we're taking a virtual visit to the site of Pompeii in Italy. In AD 79, Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was buried under four to six metres of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii is usually a ...