Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist Discount Tickets

Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist image
Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist image
Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist image
Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist image
Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist image

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Overview

This experience combines the two archaeological sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, famous for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius happened in 79 AD. Join the guide at the entrance of Pompeii ruins called Porta Marina Inferiore, where the tour starts. Discover the site and its best highlights with the assistance of an expert Archaeologist. You will see the Forum – the main square – the most important houses and buildings and the famous plaster casts. After the tour take a quick break, then reach the site of Herculaneum by the local metro line called Circumvesuviana at a few steps from Pompeii entrance. End your tour with the site of Herculaneum, smaller than Pompeii but better preserved: visit the beach where more than 300 skeletons were found.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

For POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM ENGLISH TOUR FROM ROME participants This option includes round trip train tickets from Rome to Naples. Once in Naples, the meeting point is across the street from the Naples central station, at Starhotels Terminus. Your tour guide will hold an Askos Tours sign.

End Point

End point

If you book POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM OPTION FROM ROME, the tour ends at the Rome Termini station. The Pompeii and Herculaneum walking tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins

Redemption Instructions

Please follow the meeting instruction depending the chosen tour option. POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WALKING TOUR FROM POMPEII Entrance of Pompeii Ruins PORTA MARINA INFERIORE in Piazza Esedra POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WITH TRANSPORTATION FROM NAPLES Outside Starhotels Terminus, opposite Naples Central Station POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM WITH TRANSPORTATION FROM SORRENTO Near the fountain of PIAZZA ANGELINA LAURO, Sorrento

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.
Duration: 15 mins
2. Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.
Duration: 10 mins
3. Walk through the main street of Pompeii.
4. The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents.
Duration: 15 mins
5. In the granary you will see marble tables and baths for fountains that adorned the entrances of houses and some casts of victims of the eruption as well as that of a dog and a tree.
Duration: 15 mins
6. These occupy a vast area between the Brothel lane, the Holconius crossroads and the Via Stabiana. They represent the oldest thermal complex in the city.
Duration: 15 mins
7. Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.
Duration: 15 mins
8. The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii.
Duration: 15 mins
9. Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.
Duration: 15 mins
10. Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii
Duration: 15 mins
11. After the visit of Pompeii, continue to Herculaneum together with your archaeologist guide, following the transportation method included in your selected option: From Naples, Sorrento, or Rome: travel with the guide by modern minibus directly to the Herculaneum archaeological site. From Pompeii: reach Herculaneum with your guide using the included Circumvesuviana train ticket (about 30 minutes + 10-minute walk). A quick lunch break is available before the transfer (own expense). Arrival in Herculaneum: Upon arrival, the guide leads the group directly to the Ticket Office of the Herculaneum ruins. You may access it as follows: By minibus (Naples, Sorrento, Rome options): direct drop-off near the entrance. By train (Pompeii option): a short 10-minute walk from Ercolano Scavi station.
Duration: 60 mins
12. The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.
Duration: 10 mins
13. 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.
Duration: 10 mins
14. 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).
Duration: 10 mins
15. 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.
Duration: 10 mins
16. It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.
Duration: 10 mins
17. 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.
Duration: 15 mins
18. 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.
Duration: 10 mins
19. The House of the Black Hall is one of Herculaneum's more luxurious mansions. The house has a monumental entrance which still retains the carbonised remains of the doorposts and lintel.
Duration: 15 mins
20. The house has an arrangement that was typical of the Samnites (an ancient people of the Sabine race who occupied this mountainous part of central Italy). The splendid atrium is skirted by a gallery with Ionic columns. The rooms are decorated with frescoes.
Duration: 15 mins
21. This is one of the most original houses in Herculaneum. It has a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony instead of an atrium.
Duration: 10 mins
22. Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.
Duration: 10 mins

Inclusion

Headsets for all participants

Round-trip transportation to/from Naples, outside Starhotels Terminus (Tour from Naples)

Train tickets to/from Rome to Naples + Full Day transportation service (Tour from Rome)

Guided tour service in both Pompeii and Herculaneum

Round-trip transportation to/from Sorrento, P.za Angelina Lauro (Tour from Sorrento)

Circumvesuviana one-way train ticket from Pompeii to Herculaneum (Tour from Pompeii)

Exclusion

Meals and drinks

Personal expenses

Cancellation Policy

Check mark icon Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Additional Info

Public transportation options are available nearby

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Herculaneum ruins' entry tickets: 16 euros (adult) 2 euros (EU citizens 18-25 y.o.); Pompeii ruins' entry tickets: 20 euros (adult)

Not recommended for visitors in wheelchairs

Not recommended for visually impaired guests unless accompanied by a dedicated personal assistant

Supplied by Askos Tours

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