Pompei - Mancusi

Pompeii, a thriving Roman city of 8,000 to 10,000 people, was hit by an earthquake in 62, causing extensive damage. However, the city recovered, but the earthquake may have been caused by the sagging of a hearth roof clod that had come loose on the volcano's vent plug.

In the fall of 79 large amounts of pumice and ash were thrown out. Some residents left the city for fear of an eruption from the volcano. Vesuvius erupted at the end of November. The eruption ejected large amounts of ash, lava and gases into the atmosphere. This cloud was carried by the wind across the land to Pompeii. Shortly after the eruption began, pumice began to rain. Pompeii was buried under a layer of volcanic ash and pumice up to 25 meters thick for over 1500 years. Pompeii has been systematically excavated since about 1750. About two thirds of the city have now been uncovered

But there is a modern Pompei as well.

In 1925 Giuseppe and his brother Sebastiano Mancusi opened a shop for the resale of sewing threads, needles, ribbons, rubber bands, buttons and everything that is needed for sewing.

After a few years, Sebastiano and Giuseppe separated and dissolved the company. The first dedicated himself to selling clothes, while the second continued selling haberdashery together with his sister Carolina.

In 1970, the brothers Rosario and Carla Mancusi, Giuseppe's children, decided to reopen the shop. And for a strange twist of fate, they open their doors right on Via Lepanto, where it all began in the 1920s.