Pompeii rebuilt with Lego bricks at the Sydney Museum

In Sydney a spectacular and original reproduction of Pompeii made with 190mila colored Lego bricks

The city of Pompei It has always been one of the favorite tourist destinations for tourists from all over the world and its excavations are a precious archaeological find because they testify to the art, eating habits and fashions of over two millennia ago.

Pompeii was reconstructed even in Australia, al Nicholson University Museum in Sydney, where there is a non-scale reproduction of the city, made with 190.000 colored bricks of the Danish Lego house. An idea born from the mind of Ryan McNaught, known as "The Brickman", Accredited and official Lego builder.

The Brickman, that is the brick man, has reconstructed Pompeii in detail on two floors of work, representing it as it was before it was destroyed by the eruption of the Vesuvius of 79 AD. The area where the Pompeian hole stood, the temple of worship at Zeus, the basilica, the macellum and the building of Eumachia. There are also the famous via dell'Abbondanza with its beautiful villas in Pompeian red, the thermal baths, the tabernae and popinae, meeting places of the Pompeii, the great amphitheater where the performances were held flanked by the Gym where the gladiators were trained.

It must be said, however, that not everyone knows that even the National archeologic museum of Naples hosts a wonderful model of Pompeii designed in 1861 by Giuseppe Fiorelli. It constitutes a remarkable historical relic as it also reproduces the areas deteriorated by the passage of time or destroyed during wars. However, the amphitheater, Insula occidentalis and Insula 2 of regio VIII have not been reproduced.

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Written by Valeria Muollo
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