Best Pompeii Tours From Rome
Travel to Pompeii in style with Private Transportation and Explore the Doomed City
Discover the ruins of Pompeii with our Best Pompeii Tours From Rome. Explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site on a full-day return trip from Rome. Walk among the ruins of Pompeii with your small group and tour this ancient city, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. Learn about one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in the world on this 2-hour walking tour.
Visit the site of the city’s most important public buildings, houses and shops. See the Marina Gate, Basilica, Forum, Baths, Lupanar (brothel), Bakery, Faun’s House, Termopolium, Main Street, Plaster Casts of the Dead, and Theaters.
Pompeii is an ancient city near Naples and an ideal day trip from Rome. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other villages under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 feet). of volcanic ash and pumice.
Although the city is now just a pile of ashes, it has immense historical significance, which is why many millions visit Pompeii every year. It is full of historical attractions and visitors can learn a lot about its history.
The archaeological park, amphitheater, works of art, frescoes and plaster casts of the people of Pompeii are unmissable places to understand the history of that time. With 440,000 square meters of excavations, you can imagine that there are several interesting points within the archaeological complex, however, some of them deserve to be highlighted and, below, we will see which points of Pompeii you cannot miss.
Basilica
The Basilica was the most sumptuous building in the Forum of Pompeii, and its space was used to conduct business and administer justice. Dating back to 130-120 BC, it is one of the oldest examples of this type of construction in the entire Roman world. It was the first building I visited in Pompeii.
Its interior is divided into three naves, with two rows of imposing columns. Apparently, the walls were richly decorated with stucco, simulating large blocks of marble.
With some imagination and with your eyes closed, perhaps you can imagine the judges of that time sitting in the center of the basilica, while judicial matters were resolved, it is located in the center of the small western side.
At the end of the Basilica is the Civil Forum of Pompeii, where I’ll head next.
Civil Forum
Civil Forum was the core of everyday life in Pompeii; epicenter of the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business administration and commercial activities, including markets, as well as the main places of worship.
Forum square has undergone several modifications over time, having been significantly modified between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when the square was surrounded by porticoes and the bottom was paved with tuff slabs. The axis of the Forum of Pompeii became the facade of the Temple of Jupiter, aligned with Mount Vesuvius. That’s where I headed next.
Temple of Jupiter
The Temple of Jupiter dominates the north side of the Forum of Pompeii, with Mount Vesuvius in the background. Around 80 B.C. it became a real capitol, apparently inspired by the Capitol in Rome, with three cult statues – Jupiter, Juno and Minerva – similar to those in Rome; and placed on a high base to be visible by passers-by in the Forum square.
Currently, as a tourist attraction, the Forum area (including the Basilica and the Temple of Jupiter) is the place where the most people are concentrated, mainly because of its location at the beginning of the visit (for those who enter through Porta Marina). From there, visitors disperse through the streets of the vast archaeological complex.
Stephanus’ Laundry
A space adapted from an old house and in whose atrium a large tank was placed. Apparently, Stephanus’ collaborators were almost all slaves, and they had to step for hours on dirty fabrics and clothes placed in a liquid that contained human and animal urine.
House of Paquius Proculus
The House of Paquius Proculus on the floor, a mosaic depicting a chained dog crouching in front of an open door caught my eye. The entire atrium is, incidentally, entirely covered with colorful mosaics with images of animals – a fact that, according to the official literature of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, alludes to prosperity.
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