Pompeii

Overview

Departure to Pompeii’s excavations. Walking through the ancient streets you can visit the houses, with their wonderful frescoes, once residences of roman patricians before the tremendous eruption of A.D. 79.

Tour details

Available every day except Wednesday from April to October
The amount includes guide and bus service
Entrances in Pompeii are not included, to be paid in loco (Euros 11,00 per person, entrance free up to 18 years and over 65 years for UE citizens)
Available in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish
Duration: 4 hours (1:50 visit)
Departure: from 7:50 to 9:00 am

Timetable pick up for: Pompeii, Pompeii & Amalfi, Pompeii & Vesuvio, Capri & Anacapri
h.7.45 Htl Holiday Inn
h.7.50 Htl Tiberio Palace
h.7.55 Hotel Ramada
h.8.00 Htl Terminus & meeting point
h.8.10 Htl Cavour
h.8.15 Htl S.Angelo
h.8.20 Htl Plaza
h.8.25 Htl Palace
h.8.30 Htl S.Giorgio
h.8.35 Htl Una
h.8.40 Htl Royal
h.8.45 Htl Vesuvio
h.8.50 Htl S.Lucia
h.9.00 Molo Beverello (Naples Pier & meeting point)

The pick up service from the hotel is free for guests staying in one of the hotels we work with. For all the other hotels when reservation is made, it will be established the time and the place for the meeting point. At the end of the tour, our bus will take you at your hotel or at the initial meeting point. Due to logistic reasons, it might occur some dalays related to the scheduled pick up timetable. The company reserves the faculty to modify time-tables condituons and itineraries for circumstances beyond its control and without notice, and to cancel the sightseeing refunding the aumont paid. The company is not responsible for possible partial closing of Museums and of company is not responsible for possible changes of prices, especially those regarding the entrance fees. The company is not responsible if you get lost during the excursion.

In case of cancellation notified by the client at least 24 hours/one working day before the departure, the total price will be refunded. Less than 24 hours before the departure:50% penality. No show:100% penality. The society reserves the faculty to modify time-tables conditions ( adverse weather, rough sea etc.) and itineraries for circumstances beyond its control and without notice, and to cancel the sightseeing refunding the amount paid. The society is not responsible for possible partial closing of Museums and of Archaelogical Sites and will not answer for delays, strikes, irregularities or damages caused by a third-party or by circumstances beyond its control. The society is not responsible for possible changes of prices, especially those regarding the entrance fees. The society is not responsible for possible objects lost during the excursions.

clients must notify the organization in writing and with 7 days from tour/service reserved any complaint regarding the tour or services as well as any complaint regarding the organization itself or its failure in providing any aspect included in the tour/service description.

Details

Pompeii is a unique place in the world as it gives us the possibility to reconstruct the daily life of the inhabitants of a city that a catastrophic event (the eruption of the Vesuvius) has immortalized.

The heart of the city life, the center of all the economical, commercial and political activities, and the classic meeting point, the “piazza” of Pompeii, was the Forum. In this place, surrounded by a double colonnade and bronze and marble statues , were located the main public buildings: the Basilica, the government seats, the Comitium, the Giove’s temple. And many other temples that testify the religious culture, also present in the citizens’ houses as private altars named larari.

The Macellum was used to sell vegetables and meat. The building of Eumachia was the seat of the Fullones corporation (clothes factories), destined to the sale of wool and clothing. Along Via dell’Abbondanza were located the thermapolia, for wine bars, osterie and trattorie.

The most popular places of the city were the Thermae. These buildings, divided into male and female sections, included a calidarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath) and frigidarium (cold bath), and other rooms were used for massages and aesthetic procedures. The body care was completed in the gymnasiums for sport activities.

The big theater, with capacity of 5000 spectators, was used for classic shows, comedies por tragedies, while the small theater was used for musical and mime shows. The great elliptical Anfitheater, with a capacity of 12000 persons, gladiators games took place.

But t was in their homes where the Pompei citizens focused their love for architecture, gardens and frescoes. The gardens were full of fountains, thanks to the possibility of use the running water. Mosaics completed the decoration inside the houses, from the most simple in terracotta, to black and white plugs with geometric forms.

Prices

Price for person: € 40.00

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