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Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist

Location Pompeii, Italy, Europe
Location Naples, Italy, Europe
Location Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Italy, Europe
$118.98
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Overview

This experience combines the two archaeological sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, famous for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius happened in 79 AD.
Join the guide at the entrance of Pompeii ruins called Porta Marina Inferiore, where the tour starts.
Discover the site and its best highlights with the assistance of an expert Archaeologist.
You will see the Forum – the main square – the most important houses and buildings and the famous plaster casts.
After the tour take a quick break, then reach the site of Herculaneum by the local metro line called Circumvesuviana at a few steps from Pompeii entrance.
End your tour with the site of Herculaneum, smaller than Pompeii but better preserved: visit the beach where more than 300 skeletons were found.

The experience offers several options. This price includes:

English Tour from Pompeii
Duration: 6 hours
ENGLISH TOUR : Pompeii & Herculaneum Small Group Walking Tour from Pompeii
TRANSPORTATION IS INCLUDED BETWEEN POMPEII & HERCULANEUM ONLY
Meeting place: This option is a walking tour, the meeting point is the entrance of Pompeii ruins Porta Marina INFERIORE, Piazza Esedra.
Starting point:
Piazza Esedra, 1, 80045 Pompei NA, Italy
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 6 hours

The experience offers several options, check yours above
  • "Pompei Express" admission fee
  • Herculaneum entry tickets (€16,00 each)
  • Circumvesuviana one-way train ticket from Pompeii to Herculaneum
  • Guidance in Pompeii and Herculaneum by archaeologist guide
  • Meals and drinks
  • Pick up and drop off service

Meeting point
If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM OPTION FROM NAPLES OR SORRENTO, the tour ends back to the meeting point. The Pompeii and Herculaneum walking tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins
If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM OPTION FROM NAPLES OR SORRENTO, the tour ends back to the meeting point. The Pompeii and Herculaneum walking tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins
For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WALKING TOUR participants This option excludes transportation. The meeting point is at the Pompeii Ruins entrance, PORTA MARINA INFERIORE, in Piazza Esedra Square. Look for our staff holding an Askos Tours sign for easy identification.
Return details
If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM OPTION FROM NAPLES OR SORRENTO, the tour ends back to the meeting point. The Pompeii and Herculaneum walking tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins
If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM OPTION FROM NAPLES OR SORRENTO, the tour ends back to the meeting point. The Pompeii and Herculaneum walking tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins
If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WALKING OPTION, the tour ends indide Herculaneum Ruins. The Naples and Sorrento options, which include transportation, end back to the meeting point

  • Basilica
    Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.
  • Foro de Pompeya
    Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.
  • Walk through the main street of Pompeii. (pass by)
  • The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lupanar
    Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.
  • The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii.
  • Odeon - Teatro Piccolo
    Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.
  • Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii
  • Transfer by train to Herculaneum (30 minutes trip + 10 minutes walk) and quick lunch break if required. Meeting place is the Ticket Office of the Herculaneum ruins. You can get there as follows: - By car in via Pignalver (There is a not guarded parking very close the meeting place) - By train in Corso Resina 1 (Circumvesuviana train station is 10 minutes walk away)
  • The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno
    It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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    Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist

    Location Pompeii, Italy, Europe
    Location Naples, Italy, Europe
    Location Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Italy, Europe
    $118.98
    This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after they redeem the gift voucher.
    How it works?
    01 You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
    02 We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
    03 Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!
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