Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Excursion from Sorrento

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Your excursion will begin in Piazza Angelina Lauro, the designated meeting point in the centre of Sorrento, right by the red tulip sculpture. Here you will meet your local guide and the Askos Tours staff member who will accompany the small group throughout the experience. Please arrive a few minutes early to ensure a smooth departure.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  You will access the archaeological site of Pompeii through the Porta Marina entrance, one of the most significant gateways to the ancient city. Here your guided tour will begin, led by a licensed archaeologist from Askos Tours who will introduce you to the history, urban layout, and daily life of Pompeii before the eruption of 79 AD.

  Admission ticket free
• 2

  Discover the open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3

  Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• Via dell’Abbondanza (Pass by)

  Walk through the main street of Pompeii.

  Admission ticket free
• 4
  Insula dei Casti Amanti

  Located along the Via dell’Abbondanza, the Insula of the Chaste Lovers preserves remarkable frescoes depicting intimate moments of daily life, including the famous affectionate couple. This stop offers a brief yet vivid glimpse into the elegance and domestic atmosphere of ancient Pompeian homes.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5

  See the marble tables and baths for fountains that adorned the entrances of houses and some casts of victims of the eruption as well as that of a dog and a tree.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 6
  Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)

  Enter the oldest thermal complex in the city.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 7

  Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8

  The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 9
  Odeon - Teatro Piccolo

  Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 10
  Teatro Grande

  Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 11

  Take a short break at Maximall Pompeii, the largest shopping center in the South of Italy, where you’ll receive an exclusive welcome kit + discount card, granting you special deals in stores.

  45 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 12

  The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 13
  La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo

  M. Nonius Balbus was the city's major benefactor restoring and building many public buildings. On his death he was made patron and feted with many honours, detailed in the long inscription on his funeral altar.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 14
  College of the Augustales

  It is thought that the building was a centre of the cult of the Emperor Augustus and the headquarters of the Collegium Augustalium (or possibly even the local curia).

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 15

  The house possibly belonged to one of the town's leading benefactors, Marcus Nonius Balbus and is somewhat unusual in that it has its own private access to the adjoining Suburban Thermae to the south.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 16
  Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

  It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 17

  Enjoy a 2-hour guided tour to the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 18
  Central Thermae

  The Central Thermae were built around the beginning of the 1st century AD and were divided, as was then the common practice, into men's and women's baths, each with their own separate entrances.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 19

  The House of the Black Hall is one of Herculaneum's more luxurious mansions. The house has a monumental entrance which still retains the carbonised remains of the doorposts and lintel.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 20
  Casa Sannitica

  The house has an arrangement that was typical of the Samnites (an ancient people of the Sabine race who occupied this mountainous part of central Italy). The splendid atrium is skirted by a gallery with Ionic columns. The rooms are decorated with frescoes.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 21
  Casa del Bel Cortile

  This is one of the most original houses in Herculaneum. It has a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony instead of an atrium.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 22
  House of the Grand Portal

  Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 23
  House of the Skeleton

  The House of the Skeleton probably the aggregation of three smaller buildings, derives its name from the discovery of human remains in a second floor room in 1831.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 24

  At the end of the excursion, you will be driven back to Piazza Angelina Lauro. This central location in Sorrento serves as the drop-off point, allowing you to conclude your day comfortably and continue with the rest of your plans.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Travel time is included
• No dogs allowed in the vehicle for this option - service animals allowed
• Herculaneum ruins' entry tickets: 16 euros (adult)

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