Pompeii and Herculaneum Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist

Basilica was an open portico that gave shelter to merchants and other activities.

Have a look of the ancient main square of Pompeii.

Walk through the main street of Pompeii.

The house of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents.

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.

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.

Visit the most famous brothel in the ruined Roman city of Pompeii.

The house of Faun was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii.

Have a look of the so called Teatro Piccolo of Pompeii.

Visit the most important Theater in Pompeii

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.