Read the latest articles entirely dedicated to Through Eternity published 25 June 2012 and 29 June 2012.

Through Eternity is made up of a group of historians, archeologists and art historians. They are native English speakers or speak excellent English who know and love the history and art of this city. We at Through Eternity work hard to help you understand the formation and historical significance of the sites we bring you to discover. These places, the architecture, with its artworks, are important for what took place there, for the sense and the functions that they had in the past, for the changes that they mark in history, for the new ideas in politics, religion, and art that produced them, and that they represent and express. We at Through Eternity know the value of travel, we know that it is a dream and a great opportunity for discovering other cultures, great art, and the great events of history. But only with the kind of knowledge and enthusiasm that we want to share with you, can such a dream come true.

Our Pompeii tours help you understand why at Pompeii more than in other sites we are presented with the geometry still intact of those places where life was moving along tranquilly on that fateful day in August of 79 AD when the volcano swept away time.

Our Pompeii tours explain how in these streets commerce took place, the economy was carried forward, there were pubs that attracted the passers-by with their archaic signs advertising the food. Reconstructing the city of commerce, the economy, the politics of the time, ways of thinking, and daily life of ancient Pompeii, we will help you make sense of your visit.

Our Naples tours because a visit to Naples can be a great occasion to approach art and appreciate it, to understand it and have an emotional response in front of a work of art.

Our Naples tours immerse you in Naples which is a multifaceted city, a fascinating interweaving of diverse cultures that have run alongside and superimposed one another through the centuries leaving layers of specific heritages, where the forms of art have conversed, often assuming a typical Neopolitan character. Here discerning the origins, the meaning, the original function of the architecture and artworks is more than ever fundamental for exploring and really understanding what we are visiting.

Naples of the artists

Many artists from all over the world have recounted through the centuries their discovery of Naples. They tell us of their stupor in this vital, generous, and contradictory city or they recount certain passages from its long history. Among them is Erri di Luca, a contemporary Neopolitan author of great sensibility. We want to give you his description of post-war Naples, taken from a page of his novel Il Giorno Prima della Felicita'. It is above all a token of our esteem for one of our favorite writers.

The post-war time was a desperate offensive. Men threw themselves into making money and women abandoned themselves with the Americans. The females lost their heads and everything else. Every house hosted an American. They brought abundance, business, work. The girls went to their parties at the Rest Camp. They had become more beautiful and more audacious. Few means of public transportation circulated, the girls asked for rides in the jeeps. They got themselves picked up and they fell in love. Crimes of jealousy happened. One husband knew that his wife went with the Americans but he kept quiet, which was easier. Actually, he even went with her. But one time the wife said that she had a mind to do it with them and then he went crazy with jealousy. He killed her, his mother-in-law, his sister-in-law and her husband, four all at once, in Piedigrotta. Naples had exhausted its tears in war, it let itself go with the Americans, every day was a carneval with the Americans. Then I understood the city. Monarchy and anarchy. Naples wanted a king but no government. It was a Spanish city. In Spain there was always the monarchy but also the strongest anarchic movement. Naples is Spanish, it's in Italy by mistake.

Erri de Luca, Il Giorno Prima della Felicità, 2009
(our translation)