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Pompeii and Herculaneum Private Tour With Archaeologist

Pompeii and Herculaneum Private Tour With Archaeologist

5.0 (93) 🕑 7 hours Free cancellation

With plenty of millennia-old ruins to discover, knowing where to begin in the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum is tricky. Beat this overwhelm and explore them with an archaeologist guide. Go straight to the highlights and learn about the Mt. Vesuvius eruption of AD 79. Perfect for cruisers who are looking for an excursion when docking in ports in the Campania region, including Naples.

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📍Corso Resina, 187, 80056 Ercolano NA, Italy
🏢Operated by Askos Tours

Highlights

  • ✓See ancient Roman ruins at both Pompeii and Herculaneum in one day
  • ✓Rest up between sites in an air-conditioned vehicle
  • ✓No need to hire a car, with roundtrip transportation included
  • ✓Beat ticket anxiety with prebooked entry to both sites

What you'll see & do

  • ✓Pick up at your accommodation in Naples, Salerno, Sorrento or Amalfi Coast. Start your tour meeting your tour guide at the ticket office of Herculaneum ruins
  • ✓The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓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).
  • ✓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.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts. Drop off at your accommodation in Naples, Salerno, Sorrento or Amalfi Coast.
  • ✓Free time to have lunch on your own, then continue your tour visiting Pompeii Ruins
  • ✓Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii
  • ✓Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii
  • ✓Walk through the main street of Pompeii
  • ✓In the granary you will see 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.
  • ✓Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities
  • ✓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
  • ✓The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents
  • ✓The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii
  • ✓Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii
  • ✓Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii

What's included

  • ✓Entrance fees
  • ✓Admission ticket 'Pompeii Express'
  • ✓Hotel/port pick up and drop off
  • ✓Transportation by private Minivan and a professional driver
  • ✓Guidance and assistance for the entire tour

What's not included

  • ✓Meals and personal expenses (not obliged to stop)

Good to know

Specialized infant seats are available

Service animals allowed

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Suggested comfortable shoes.

In the summer NO flip flops.

Best to bring sunglasses, sunscreen and water.

Lunch stop in between Herculaneum and Pompeii (not obliged to stop)

Herculaneum ruins' entry tickets: 16 euros (adult) 2 euros (EU citizens 18-25 y.o.)

Pick at the cruise port , train station, airport, or at your accommodation in Naples, Salerno, Sorrento or Amalfi Coast.

Cancellation policy

  • •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
  • •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
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