Private Pompeii Tour with Wine Tasting & Lunch from Positano

Highlights

• Priority Access to Pompeii
• Expert Private Guide
• Wine Tasting & Lunch

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Positano

   Pass by

   Pick-up at your hotel or central meeting in Positano by private vehicle

2. 2

   Archaeological Park of Pompeii

   2h

   Pompei is a city in southern Italy’s Campania region overlooked by the active volcano, Vesuvius. It’s known for its ruins, infact the city was buried by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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

   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.

7. 7

   Via dell’Abbondanza

   Pass by

   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.

8. 8

   Basilica

   10min

   The Basilica, with its extension of 1,500 square meters, was the most sumptuous building of the Forum, and its space was used to carry out business and for the administration of justice.

Before you go

Location

Italy