TOUR DURATION: 5/6 HOURS.
PRICE: it depends on how many people join the Tour.
DRESS CODE : wear comfortable shoes
Pompeii and Herculaneum are similar but also different. No doubt, you can combine the visit of these amazing two historical sites.
They are the best preserved ancient Roman towns and two of the most visited archeological sites in the world!!!
Travel back 2000 years and visit the towns that were buried for centuries under meters of volcanic ashes, mud, lava, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the 79 AD.
Step back to the days of the Roman Empire and learn about the daily life of the ancient Romans!
Pompeii : During the Tour of Pompeii with your Licensed Tour Guide you will visit the highlights of the ancient town:
- The city center of the ancient Pompeii: the so called "Forum" with its imposing and magnificent buildings, religious Roman Temples and the gorgeous view of Mount Vesuvius. In the forum you will even see the famous plaster casts of Pompeii: the bodies of people who died during the eruption!
- The Roman houses full of beautiful, mosaics, frescoes, little gardens and works of arts (The house of the Vetti, the house of Menander, the house of the Faun ...)
- The Thermal baths where you will see rooms beautifully decorated, marble basins, sculptures...
- You will be walking on the original Roman roads where you will see ancient, taverns, bakeries, restaurants ..
- You will be walking in the red-light district of the town where you can visit the whore-house with the famous erotic paintings of Pompeii (the Lupanare).
- The Theaters of Pompeii, the places where the ancient Roman delighted themselves attending comedies, tragedies and poetry!!!
Herculaneum: For its beautiful position in the bay of Naples Herculaneum was the favorite location of wealthy Roman Aristocrats.
Completely buried under about 60 feet of volcanic material during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the 79 A.D, Herculaneum is now one of the best preserved archaeological site of the World.
Walking in the ruins you will visit beautiful Roman Houses full of sculptures, paintings, works of fine art, colorful mosaics, (the house of Neptune and Amphitrite, the house of the Deers, the house of the Black hall, the house of Relief of Telephus).
In some of the houses of Herculaneum, for example in the House of The Tramezzo di legno, you can even see pieces of furniture, carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (doors, shelves, tables).
You will certainly stop in the Thermal Bath (the ancient SPA), still covered with original mosaics.
By the exit of the ruins, by the ancient marina you will see 300 skeletons, the bodies of people who tried to escape during the terrible eruption of the Vesuvius in the 79 A.D
HOW TO GET TO POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM
We can organize for you a Private Transfer.
You can decide to go to Pompeii and Herculaneum on your own and meet your in Pompeii or Herculaneum. In this case the easiest way is to take the CIRCUMVESUVIANA train. It is a local train that takes from Sorrento or Naples, 35 minutes only. From Naples take the line that goes towards Sorrento. You have to get off the train at POMPEI SCAVI Villa dei Misteri and ERCOLANO.
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