Herculaneum Small Group Tour and Ticket With an Archaeologist

Meeting point

Where

Meeting place 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) · Open in Google Maps

Departure

13 start times between 07:40 and 15:30 daily; scheduled year-round (operator schedule, seats confirmed at checkout)

Return

The tour ends inside Herculaneum Ruins

Pickup

No hotel pickup: everyone meets at the start point

Operator

Askos Tours; booking and payment are completed on Viator

1. Archeological Park of Herculaneum

   Meeting 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)

   Pass by, no stop
2. 2
   The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle10 min
3. 3
   La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo

   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.

   10 min
4. 4
   College of the Augustales

   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).

   10 min
5. 5
   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 south10 min
6. 6
   Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

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

   10 min
7. 7
   House of the Skeleton

   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.

   10 min
8. 8
   Central Thermae

   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.

   10 min
9. 9
   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.

   10 min
10. 10
    Casa Sannitica

    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.

    10 min
11. 11
    Casa del Bel Cortile

    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.

    10 min
12. 12
    House of the Grand Portal

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

    10 min

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