Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Archaeological Park Tour with Expert Guide

Highlights

• 3-Hour Guided Tour
• Small Group (Max 8 People)
• Skip-the-Line Access

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Archaeological Park of Pompeii

   Pass by

   Make your way to the Pompeii excavation on your own (it's an easy trip from Naples or Sorrento on the Circumvesuviana train to the Pompei Scavi station). Meet your guide, with a sign with our company's name "ItalyBestExcursions" on the top, at the main entrance "Porta Marina" directly across the road from the Pompeii Scavi train station. • Please meet the guide at least approx. 15 minutes in advance, entrance is strictly limited.

2. 2

   Archaeological Park of Pompeii

   Pass by

   Visiting Pompeii (Skip-The-Line Tickets included) is not like a museum , is as live again in an ancient roman commercial town of 3 Km. Buildings, temples, shops catched in the time of the eruption. Pompeii was an ancient Roman town near modern Naples, it was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

3. 3

   Casa della Venere in Conchiglia

   Pass by

   The Sanctuary of Venus is placed on spectacular artificial terrace that offers great views of the Gulf of Naples, overlooking the bay where the harbour was to be situated. Venus was the patron goddess of Pompeii, to whom the colony was named upon conclusion (80 BC).

4. 4

   Stop 4

   15min

   The Basilica, with its extension of 1,500 square metres, was the most sumptuous building in Pompeii, it is dated back to 130-120 BC and is one of the oldest examples of this type of building in the entire Roman world.

5. 5

   Stop 5

   10min

   The Pompeii Civil Forum is the core of daily life of the city and is the focal point of all the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business management, and trade activities such as markets, as well as the main places of citizen worship.

6. 6

   Temple of Apollo

   Pass by

   The Sanctuary of Apollo is one of the oldest places of worship in Pompeii, built in a strategic point, along the path that goes up to Marina Gate, which led to the public heart of the city.

7. 7

   Macellum

   Pass by

   The Macellum consists of a tuff quadriporticus with a hall for worship in an elevated position on the eastern side, in line with the entrance. The copies of two marble statues, a female and a male armed, are found on the niches of the side wall, together with the fragment of a larger statue, probably pertaining to an emperor, Titus or Vespasian, indicating how this area was intended for the imperial cult.

8. 8

   Casa del Fauno

   15min

   It is one of the larger houses of Pompeii, covering an entire block of about 3000 sqm and, according to its original layout, it dates back to the 2nd century BC. The wealth and social level of the owner are immediately evident from the street: the pavement bears the Latin welcome inscription (HAVE)

Before you go

Location