Private Pompeii Tour with Wine Tasting and Lunch with Pick-up

Highlights

• Private Pompeii Guided Tour
• Wine Tasting and Lunch
• Private Transportation

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Sorrento

   Pass by

   Pick up at your accommodation or at a central meeting point in Sorrento or Naples

2. 2

   Archaeological Park of Pompeii

   2h

   The Pompeii Archaeological Park is one of the most significant UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world, preserving a Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Spanning over 66 hectares, the park offers an unparalleled look at ancient urban life, where volcanic ash acted as a preservative for everything from grand villas and public baths to everyday household items and carbonized bread. It is a vast open-air museum that continues to reveal new discoveries through ongoing excavations, bridging the gap between modern history and the ancient Roman Empire.

3. 3

   Foro de Pompeya

   10min

   The 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.

4. 4

   Tempio di Giove Capitolino

   10min

   The Temple of Jupiter dominates the north side of the Forum, with Mount Vesuvius scenically rising behind. When the colony was founded (80 BC), the temple underwent a radical renovation and became a real Capitolium with the three cult statues of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, which looked like those of the Capitolium in Rome, placed on a high base so as to make them visible to whoever passed in the Forum square.

5. 5

   Macellum

   10min

   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. To its left is a room for meetings of a sacred board and to the right a large room with a masonry counter perhaps for fish to be sold.

6. 6

   Via dell’Abbondanza

   Via dell’Abbondanza was the ancient main street (decumanus maximus) of ancient Pompeii, which ran across the city in the direction east/west from the Forum to the Porta Sarno. In ancient times the street was crowded and noisy with many shops, workshops ("officinae”), cafes, snack-bars and restaurants for food and drink.

7. 7

   Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)

   10min

   The Forum Baths are located behind the Temple of Jupiter and date back to the years immediately after the founding of the colony of veterans by General Silla (80 BC). Women's and men's quarters had separate entrances. The men's section presents an apodyterium (dressing room), used also as a tepidarium (for medium temperature baths), frigidarium (for cold baths) and calidarium (for hot baths). Like many buildings in Pompeii, the baths were heavily damaged during the earthquake of 62 AD.

8. 8

   Lupanar

   10min

   The Lupanar of Pompeii is the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii. It is of particular interest for the erotic paintings on its walls. Lupanar is Latin for "brothel". The Pompeii lupanar is also known as Lupanare Grande. The prostitutes in the brothel were mostly Greek and Oriental slaves who were paid between two and eight Asses (a glass of wine cost one As) for their services.

Before you go

Location

Italy