Ercolano Trip Overview
This tour for kids and is designed to guide them through the discover of Herculeneum, one of the most fascinating archaeological site of the world.
Everything is well-preserved and the kids can walk around the town, enter houses, temples and theater and truly feel what it was like to live in Roman times.
The guide will focus on their needs and will capture their attention with marvelous stories of the ancient daily life of the Romans. During the visit the guide will use educational materials, such as papers and multimedia (tablet) for reconstruction.
The itinerary can be subjected to slight variations due to the closure of some locations or due to overcrowding.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Ercolano, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Ercolano, Campania, Italy
This tour for kids and is designed to guide them through the discover of Herculeneum, one of the most fascinating archaeological site of the world.
Everything is well-preserved and the kids can walk around the town, enter houses, temples and theater and truly feel what it was like to live in Roman times.
The guide will focus on their needs and will capture their attention with marvelous stories of the ancient daily life of the Romans. During the visit the guide will use educational materials, such as papers and multimedia (tablet) for reconstruction.
The itinerary can be subjected to slight variations due to the closure of some locations or due to overcrowding.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Parco Acheologico di Ercolano, Corso Resina, 187, 80056 Ercolano Italy
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)
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Casa dei Cervi, Cardo V Sito Archeologico di Ercolano, Ercolano Italy
The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: College of the Augustales, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
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).
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Casa del Rilievo di Telefo, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Partem Domus lignea – Casa del Tramezzo di Legno, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: House of the Skeleton, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Central Thermae, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Casa del Salone Nero, Herculaneum Archeological Park the junction of Cardo IV with the Decumanus Maximus, Ercolano Italy
The House of the Black Hall is one of Herculaneum’s more luxurious mansions.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Casa Sannitica, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Casa del Bel Cortile, Ercolano Italy
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.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: House of the Grand Portal, Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano Italy
Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.
Duration: 10 minutes
