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Pompeii 4-Hour Historical Tour with Villa of the Mysteries, Guided in Italian
Four hours is long for Pompeii, and this guided tour uses the time to read the city through its history and culture instead of racing past the highlights. The Villa dei Misteri, home of the famous Dionysian fresco, is part of the route.
The guide treats Pompeii as a Hellenistic city, neither Greek nor Roman: a large commercial and industrial centre with links to Asia Minor, India and Persia. The route takes in the Domus Pompeiana, a big house known for its frescoes and mosaics, the Dionysian and Isiac mystery cults, and the daily life of a town sometimes called the most alive of the dead cities. The eruption is read as ancient writers read it, as a divine punishment, with Sodom and Gomorrah as the comparison.
Guiding is in Italian. The entrance ticket to the ruins is bought separately.
What's included
- Guide and assistance for the entire duration of the tour
- Small group (maximum 15 people per guide)
- Guide specialized in archaeology, history and philosophy
Itinerary
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Via Villa dei Misteri, 2, Pompei
Meet at the Porta Marina Superiore entrance to the excavations.
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Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Suburban baths with a frigidarium, a glass-paste nymphaeum in polychrome and glazed tiles, and a pool frescoed with Nilotic scenes.
Extra fee
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Tempio di Venere
The temple of Venus, goddess of sailors and focus of the Imperial cult, stands on a terrace above the surrounding land. A bronze Daedalus by the Polish artist Igor Mitoraj is on view.
Extra fee
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Pompei La Basilica
Pompeii's tribunal and its largest public building. Its three naves anticipate the plan of the Christian basilica.
Extra fee
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Temple of Apollo
A temple of Greek design, dominated by bronze statues of Apollo and Diana.
Extra fee
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Foro de Pompeya
The commercial, administrative and religious centre of the city, overlooked by the Temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.
Extra fee
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Terme del Foro
The city's bathing complex, with a tepidarium decorated in Neronian-school stucco and an alabaster labrum of Egyptian origin in the calidarium.
Extra fee
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Casa del Fauno
The largest house in Pompeii, a Hellenistic palace home. It holds a fine copy of the Battle of Issus mosaic, which shows Alexander the Great against Darius III of Persia in 333 BC.
Extra fee
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Casa dei Vettii
Frescoes in the fourth Pompeian style, the famous Priapus, and a hall with Cupids at work. The mythological paintings include Daedalus and the Minotaur, part of the grandest Neronian pictorial cycle in Pompeii.
Extra fee
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Casa degli Amorini Dorati
A well-preserved domus with a Rhodian peristyle, obsidian mirrors, a shrine to Isis, a lararium and frescoes of the Trojan War.
Extra fee
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Villa dei Misteri
Home of the Dionysian fresco, dating to the first century BC and unique in the world for its state of conservation.
Extra fee
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Via Villa dei Misteri, 2, Pompei
Not included
- Snacks
- Entrance Ticket to the Pompeii Ruins
Good to know
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Up to 15 travelers per booking.
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- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Guiding available in: it.
Meeting point
- Entrance to the Porta Marina Superiore excavations
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