Pompeii 2.5h Herculaneum 2h Small Group with Expert Archaeologist

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Pompeii Archaeological Park

  Pompeii is an extraordinary archaeological site, an ancient Roman city preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. During your visit to Pompeii with the guide in two and a half hours, you will discover its most famous areas frescoes.

  2 hours 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Odeon - Teatro Piccolo

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

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Teatro Grande

  Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 4

  The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)

  These occupy a vast area between the Brothel lane, the Holconius crossroads and the Via Stabiana. They represent the oldest thermal complex in the city.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 6

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

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

  Via dell’Abbondanza

  Admission ticket free
• 7

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

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 8
  Foro de Pompeya

  Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 9
  Basilica

  Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 10
  Archeological Park of Herculaneum

  A quick lunch break is available before the transfer (own expense). After the visit of Pompeii, continue to Herculaneum. Here you will enjoy a two-hour guided visit of this remarkably well-preserved ancient town, where wooden structures, mosaics, and everyday objects survived the eruption, offering an intimate and vivid glimpse into Roman life.

  2 hours • Admission ticket included
• 11

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

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 12
  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
• 13
  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
• 14

  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
• 15
  Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

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

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 16
  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.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 17
  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
• 18
  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
• 19
  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
• 20
  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

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Minimum numbers of 6 people per tour apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
• At Pompeii and Herculaneum Children under 18 y.o. enter for free, showing a valid form of ID.

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