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Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist
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Roma
About
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 ...
Highlights
From 6 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 6 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Headsets for all participants
Round-trip transportation to/from Naples, outside Starhotels Terminus (Tour from Naples)
Train tickets to/from Rome to Naples + Full Day transportation service (Tour from Rome)
Guided tour service in both Pompeii and Herculaneum
Round-trip transportation to/from Sorrento, P.za Angelina Lauro (Tour from Sorrento)
Circumvesuviana one-way train ticket from Pompeii to Herculaneum (Tour from Pompeii)
For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM ROME participants
This option includes round trip train tickets from Rome to Naples. Once in Naples, the meeting point is across the street from the Naples central station, at Starhotels Terminus.
Your tour guide will hold an Askos Tours sign.
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Important Information
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Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for visually impaired guests unless accompanied by a dedicated personal assistant
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.
15 minutes
2
Forum
Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.
10 minutes
3
Via dell’Abbondanza
Walk through the main street of Pompeii.
4
House of Menander
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
5
Granaries of the Forum
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.
15 minutes
6
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.
15 minutes
7
Lupanar
Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.
15 minutes
8
House of the Faun
The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii.
15 minutes
9
Odeon - Teatro Piccolo
Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.
15 minutes
10
Teatro Grande
Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii
15 minutes
11
Archaeological Park of Herculaneum
After the visit of Pompeii, continue to Herculaneum together with your archaeologist guide, following the transportation method included in your selected option:
From Naples, Sorrento, or Rome: travel with the guide by modern minibus directly to the Herculaneum archaeological site.
From Pompeii: reach Herculaneum with your guide using the included Circumvesuviana train ticket (about 30 minutes + 10-minute walk).
A quick lunch break is available before the transfer (own expense).
Arrival in Herculaneum:
Upon arrival, the guide leads the group directly to the Ticket Office of the Herculaneum ruins.
You may access it as follows:
By minibus (Naples, Sorrento, Rome options): direct drop-off near the entrance.
By train (Pompeii option): a short 10-minute walk from Ercolano Scavi station.
1 hour
12
House of the Deer
The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.
10 minutes
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
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
15
Casa del Rilievo di Telefo
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
16
Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno
It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.
10 minutes
17
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
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
19
House of the Black Salon
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.
15 minutes
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.
15 minutes
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
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
Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist
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About
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 ...
Highlights
From 6 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 6 hours to 11 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Headsets for all participants
Round-trip transportation to/from Naples, outside Starhotels Terminus (Tour from Naples)
Train tickets to/from Rome to Naples + Full Day transportation service (Tour from Rome)
Guided tour service in both Pompeii and Herculaneum
Round-trip transportation to/from Sorrento, P.za Angelina Lauro (Tour from Sorrento)
Circumvesuviana one-way train ticket from Pompeii to Herculaneum (Tour from Pompeii)
For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM ROME participants
This option includes round trip train tickets from Rome to Naples. Once in Naples, the meeting point is across the street from the Naples central station, at Starhotels Terminus.
Your tour guide will hold an Askos Tours sign.