Naples Trip Overview
Avoid the hustle and bustle of the city and don’t waste your time with the public transports.
Optimize your time and join a guided walking tour in Pompeii with an official guide during your transfer from Sorrento to Naples.
Tour the ruins of ancient Pompeii, learning about the ancient Mt. Vesuvius eruption that blanketed the city in ash, preserving all the manufactures and infrastructures, still clearly visible nowadays!
Skip the line entrance fee in Pompeii included… you won’t queue for hours outside the entrance !
Newer model cars/ vans offering exceptional comfort and refinement.
Direct journey reserved solely for your party!
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Starts: Naples, Italy
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Naples, Campania, Italy
Avoid the hustle and bustle of the city and don’t waste your time with the public transports.
Optimize your time and join a guided walking tour in Pompeii with an official guide during your transfer from Sorrento to Naples.
Tour the ruins of ancient Pompeii, learning about the ancient Mt. Vesuvius eruption that blanketed the city in ash, preserving all the manufactures and infrastructures, still clearly visible nowadays!
Skip the line entrance fee in Pompeii included… you won’t queue for hours outside the entrance !
Newer model cars/ vans offering exceptional comfort and refinement.
Direct journey reserved solely for your party!
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Naples, Naples, Province of Naples, Campania
Pick up at the hotel/airport/ Train Station in Naples
Stop At: Pompeii Archaeological Park, Porta Marina (via Villa dei Misteri), 80045 Pompeii Italy
Join a walking tour of the Archaeological site of Pompeii of 2 hours with an official guide !
After the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius in the 79 AD, the city was submerged by a torrent of lapilli and lava which petrified the city preserving all the manufacts and infrastructures from the passing of the years.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Basilica, Vicolo Delle Terme 2, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The Basilica, with its extension of 1,500 square meters, was the most sumptuous building of the Forum, and its space was used to carry out business and for the administration of justice.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Forum, Via Villa dei Misteri, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The Civil Forum is the core of daily life of the city and is the focal point of all the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business management, and trade activities such as markets, as well as the main places of citizen worship.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tempio di Giove Capitolino, Via Del Tempio Di Giove, 18, 00186 Pompeii Italy
The Temple of Jupiter dominates the north side of the Forum, with Mount Vesuvius scenically rising behind. When the colony was founded (80 BC), the temple underwent a radical renovation and became a real Capitolium with the three cult statues of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, which looked like those of the Capitolium in Rome, placed on a high base so as to make them visible to whoever passed in the Forum square.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Macellum, Via Villa Dei Misteri Regio VII, Building 12, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The Macellum consists of a tuff quadriporticus with a hall for worship in an elevated position on the eastern side, in line with the entrance. The copies of two marble statues, a female and a male armed, are found on the niches of the side wall, together with the fragment of a larger statue, probably pertaining to an emperor, Titus or Vespasian, indicating how this area was intended for the imperial cult. To its left is a room for meetings of a sacred board and to the right a large room with a masonry counter perhaps for fish to be sold.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Via dell’Abbondanza, Via dell_Abbondanza, 80045 Pompeii Italy
Via dell’Abbondanza was the ancient main street (decumanus maximus) of ancient Pompeii, which ran across the city in the direction east/west from the Forum to the Porta Sarno.
In ancient times the street was crowded and noisy with many shops, workshops (“officinae”), cafes, snack-bars and restaurants for food and drink
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane), Via Del Foro, 26, Pompeii Italy
The Baths are located behind the Temple of Jupiter and date back to the years immediately after the founding of the colony of veterans by General Silla (80 BC). Women’s and men’s quarters had separate entrances. The men’s section presents an apodyterium (dressing room), used also as a tepidarium (for medium temperature baths), frigidarium (for cold baths) and calidarium (for hot baths). Like many buildings in Pompeii, the baths were heavily damaged during the earthquake of 62 AD.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: House of Menander (Casa del Menandro), Pompeii Italy
The house of the Menander is a great example of a Roman Villa owned by an high-ranking family. It is reachly decorated with wonderful frescoes representing scenes of the Trojan war and here were also founded many objects in silver, tableware now strored in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. The house owes its name to a picture of Menander, an Athenian poet, placed in the portico.
The house belonged to Quintus Poppaeus Sabinus of the Poppei family, relatives of the Empress Poppea Sabina, Nero’s second wife.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Casa del Fauno, Via Villa Dei Misteri 2, 80045 Pompeii Italy
The House of the Faun (Italian: Casa del Fauno), built during the 2nd century BC, was one of the largest and most impressive private residences in Pompeii, Italy, and housed many great pieces of art. It is one of the most luxurious aristocratic houses from the Roman republic, and reflects this period better than most archaeological evidence found even in Rome itself.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Pompeii, Pompeii, Province of Naples, Campania
The Large Theater of Pompeii was built from the Romans on the slope of a hill located in the area; they took advantage of the natural depression of the mountain to create a majesty auditorium divided into 5 sectors.
On the stage were played tragedies of the Greco-Roman traditions.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Sorrento Coast, Sorrento Coast, Province of Naples, Campania
Drop off at your accommodation in Sorrento.
Duration: 5 minutes
