Pompeii & Herculaneum Private Walking Tour with an Archaeologist

Highlights

• Expert Archaeologist Guide
• Well-Preserved Herculaneum
• Pompeii Exploration

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Stop 1

   1h

   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)

2. 2

   Stop 2

   10min

   The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.

3. 3

   La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo

   10min

   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.

4. 4

   College of the Augustales

   10min

   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).

5. 5

   Stop 5

   10min

   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.

6. 6

   Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

   10min

   It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.

7. 7

   House of the Skeleton

   10min

   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.

8. 8

   Central Thermae

   10min

   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.

Before you go

Location