The most famous archaeological site in the world
The tour of Pompeii is probably the most interesting tour in the world. The tour of Pompeii is an immersion in the world of history!
The tour of Pompeii is probably the most interesting tour in the world.
It’s a typical Roman city, with original shops and houses.
Tour of Pompeii: the tragedy
Pompeii was destroyed by the terrible eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and buried by six meters of ash and volcanic material. Everything was swept away and the city was completely destroyed. A famous Roman writer called Pliny the younger wrote two letters describing the tragedy. In the tragedy his uncle, Pliny the elder, lost his life too. This is the only ancient record about the big eruption.
Tour of Pompeii: the excavations
After the tragedy the city was abandoned for many centuries. In 1748, thanks to the Bourbons, the kings of Naples, the excavations of the city started.
The archaeologists found out that Pompeii was very well-preserved. To understand how interesting is a tour of Pompeii you have to walk through it and to look at it with your eyes. Nobody can describe precisely how exciting it’s to look at the grooves left on the street by the ancient chariots and how moving it’s to look at the famous plaster casts of the victims of the big eruption, who died especially for suffocation. We know just the 2/3 of the city; 1/3 is still to find.
Tour of Pompeii: the history and the city
Pompeii was a city of approximately ten thousand citizens, which became a city for the first time in the VI century BC. Ancient Italic people used to live here before the Samnites and the Romans. It was a Roman colony in the 1st century BC and in the 1st century AD, till the destruction, happened in 79 AD.
A tour of Pompeii usually lasts two hours. You normally need a tour of two hours to see the city center, from the theater to the forum, which was the big square. In this area you can see the spa, wealthy houses with wonderful frescoes and mosaics and a lot of shops like the famous thermopolium and the bakery. In fact with a tour of Pompeii you will see many more shops than houses, because it was especially a commercial city. Pompeii was famous for the production of a delicious wine produced in the fertile area of Mount Vesuvius.
Otherwise, in a tour of Pompeii of three hours the suburban area of the city can be included too, areas like the one of the Amphitheater or Villa of Mysteries, a wealthy house out of the walls.
Don’t miss the opportunity to visit one of the most interesting archaeological sites in the world.
Don’t miss the tour of Pompeii!