Follow your guide through the site of Pompeii. You will discover the Forum, that was the heart of Pompeii and surrounded by important public buildings, including the Basilica, the Temple of Jupiter, and the Macellum (food market), the Forum provides insights into the civic life of Pompeii.

The Large Theatre was built by exploiting the natural slope of the hill for the construction of the auditorium. The staircase was separated into three areas with corridors, which were in turn divided into five sectors, and was based on a passage with a barrel vault. It was built around the middle of the 2nd century BC and significantly restored according to the Roman stlye. An inscription, visible at the entrance of the corridor that provides access to the east and that is one of the very few representations known with reference to the name of the architects, recalls the works carried out in the Augustan age by Marcus Artorius Primus.

Das Bürgerforum ist das Zentrum des alltäglichen Lebens in der Stadt. Hier befinden sich alle wichtigen öffentlichen Gebäude für die Stadtverwaltung und Justiz, die Unternehmensführung und Handelsaktivitäten wie Märkte sowie die wichtigsten Gotteshäuser der Bürger.

The Basilica, with its extension of 1,500 square metres, was the most sumptuous building of the Forum, and its space was used to carry out business and for the administration of justice. It is accessed from the Forum through five entrances separated by tuff pillars; inside it is divided into three naves with two rows of brick columns with Ionic capitals. A richly decorated suggestum, where judges sat while judicial affairs were managed, is located at the centre of the short western side.

Das Macellum besteht aus einem Quadriportikus aus Tuffstein mit einer erhöhten Kulthalle auf der Ostseite, in einer Linie mit dem Eingang. In den Nischen der Seitenwand befinden sich Kopien zweier Marmorstatuen, einer bewaffneten Frau und eines bewaffneten Mannes, zusammen mit dem Fragment einer größeren Statue, die wahrscheinlich einem Kaiser, Titus oder Vespasian, gehörte, was darauf hinweist, dass dieser Raum für den Kaiserkult vorgesehen war. Links davon befindet sich ein Raum für die Sitzungen eines heiligen Gremiums und rechts ein großer Raum mit einer gemauerten Theke, vielleicht für den Fischverkauf.

The Stabian baths, which date back to the 2nd century BC, are among the oldest we know of the Roman world. The main entrance on via dell'Abbondanza leads to a large courtyard. The pool is found to the left, whereas a colonnade is found to the right, which leads to the men's quarters, which are split into the apodyterium (dressing room), with the frigidarium (for cold baths), which leads to the tepidarium (for medium temperature baths) and then to the calidarium (for hot baths). The heating was guaranteed by a piping system in the walls and double floors that circulated the hot air coming from the furnaces and from mobile braziers.

They stretch on the western side of the Forum with eight openings separated by brick pillars and were used as for the fruit and vegetable market (Forum Holitorium). Today they form the greatest archaeological inventory of the city and have more than 9000 artefacts from the excavations in Pompeii and its territory since the end of the 19th century. They preserve the terracotta crockery that was used in the last decades of life of the city for every day activities, such as pots and pans for cooking, jugs and bottles, and amphorae, large containers used to transport oil, wine and fish sauce throughout the Mediterranean.