Small-Group Tour in Pompeii with a Real Archeologist, ticket included
- 2h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 5 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This Guide Service for Pompeii Ruins is a great choice to share with other people with a great service and a god price. It is a semi private experience because the group is really little. This tour will give you the possibility to discovery the Secrets of the old Pompeii. Visiting the Ancient city of Pompeii is a unique experience, because the most important and interesting element for the tourists are not the monument or art pieces (than also in Pompeii they do not lack), but the possibility to see the daily life of its ancient inhabitants. Visiting Pompeii is like being in a luna park, with the clamorous difference that there’s nothing virtual here, null of reconstructed, null false, it is all real.
Inclusions
What's included
- Priority Ticket entrance for the Archeological Park of Pompei
- Guide service for the Pompeii Ruins tour in your language
- Headset
What's not
- Gratuities
- Private transportation
Itinerary
A typical elegant house of the imperial age is represented by the House of the Poeta tragico, inside which there is the famous floor mosaic “Cave Canem”
In vicolo dei Vetti stands one of the most beautiful and luxurious houses of Pompeii: the House of the Vettii which takes its name from its owners, Aulo Vettio Restituto and Aulo Vettio Conviva.
Probably one of the most visited places by tourists is this 2 storey building for its prostitutes and their business. There were other brothels in town but these were usually located above a tavern or in private abodes not too luxurious either. The place was made up of 5 rooms on the ground floor and 5 on the upper one. Every room had a concrete bed with maybe, if you were lucky, a mattress or a mat.
The Forum in Pompei was reserved to pedestrians and carts were not allowed. Only public buildings overlooked this area which was about 142 metres long and 38 metres wide. The Forum today is bare of statues and its ornate flooring and marble work. It is believed that after the eruption, the area got dug up and these were then re-used in other works.
The thermal baths, or spas, whatever you want to call them, were situated outside the city walls. Its nearby port (in fact several large rocks where boats could be moored) these baths were probably used by travelers, and not by the folk of Pompeii.
Lovely, the House of Fauna lends its name to a bronze statue of a faun located in the impluvium. Its one of the most famous in the whole of Pompei.
The prestigious house (2,000 sq. metres) gets its name from an affresco of the poet Menandro. In this abode we found 118 objects in silver, obviously tableware of great interest are the affrescoes depicting the Trojan war: the death of Laocoonte: Cassandra and Ulysses
The Romans loved their games or fights as you wish, gladiators against gladiators and such like Pompei had an arena for these barbaric sports too. The amphitheatre could house up to 20,000 people on 3 different levels. what we have found out at Pompei during the hot summer months, the spectators were protected by a type of dark linen covering. Adjacent to the arena you could see the great gymnasium where youngsters would work out.
The worshipping of the God Apollo arrived a bit before the eruption of 79 A.C. This cult had lost many of its tempio di apollofollowers due to Jupiter being a stronger God. There’s a bronze statue of the God represented with his bow and arrow plus a statue of the Goddess Diana.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Porta Marina Esedra Square is the main entrance for Pompeii Archeological Parck is located just out of Pompei Scavi train Station on the Sorrento Line of the Circumevesuviana . At Coffe Shop of Hotel Vittoria you will meet your guide for the Pompeii Tour. Please be there 15 minutes before.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 15 travellers
- Operated by
- Pompei Trip&Transfer
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Pompeii
- Its from-price is 69% below the median of the 718 experiences we list in Pompeii.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 217 of 718.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Pompeii
Pompeii is a Roman town near Naples frozen in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, with streets, villas and frescoes preserved beneath the volcano.
Pompeii was a thriving Roman town when Vesuvius buried it under ash and pumice in AD 79. Excavation, begun in the eighteenth century, has uncovered paved streets with stepping stones, shops, bakeries, bathhouses and the forum. The amphitheatre, among the oldest Roman ones to survive, and the grand House of the Faun show the range of life, and plaster casts of the dead record the final moments of some residents.
Top-ranked sights in Pompeii: Pompeii Archaeological Site, Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane), Via dell’Abbondanza.
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