Herculaneum Small Group tour with an Archaeologist
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Get the chance to visit the site of Herculaneum being guided by an Archaeologist.
Get to know more about this ancient Roman city, inhabited by merchants and nobility, whose life ended dramatically fast in 79 AD. The guide will show you the waterfront where more than 300 remains of people trying to escape by sea were found, but also the Samnite house, the thermal baths, the Temple of the Augustales, the forum, the house of Neptune and Amphitrite, the Gymnasium, the house of the wooden partition and much more.
You will get an intense experience: you can see not only stone, marble and ceramics left, but also carbonized wood and even more exquisite paintings and mosaics than in Pompei.
Herculaneum was destroyed by a much more powerful force which instantly burnt all wood and buried the city under a thick layer which didn’t let the air go through and cause decay.
Itinerary
Parco Acheologico di Ercolano(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeMeeting place is the Ticket Office of the Herculaneum ruins. You can get there as follows: - By car in via Pignalver (There is a not guarded parking very close the meeting place) - By train in Corso Resina 1 (Circumvesuviana train station is 10 minutes walk away)House of the Deer
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeM. 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.College of the Augustales
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeIt 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).Casa del Rilievo di Telefo
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe 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.Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeIt is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.House of the Skeleton
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe 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.Central Thermae
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe 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.House of the Black Salon
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe 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.Casa Sannitica
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe 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.Casa del Bel Cortile
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThis is one of the most original houses in Herculaneum. It has a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony instead of an atrium.House of the Grand Portal
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeBeautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.
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