90-minute guided tour of Pompeii with an archaeologist 

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Meeting with your private archaeologist at Pompeii by the entrance of Porta Marina Superiore, near the Bar Sgambati.

Your guide will help you purchase the entry tickets: the official guides have the right to access a specific cash desk reserved only for them.

At the start of the tour  unless you wish to visit anything in particular, your archaeologist  will  explain and describe some of  the monuments of the Pompeii ruins and will gladly answer any questions or curiosities you might have.

Your archaeologist, in order to maximize the time available (90 minutes), will  share  boundless enthusiasm , depict the scene  and anecdotes of Pompeiian life and  provide vivid  explanations about main monuments without wasting your precious time. Plaster  casts of human beings, brilliantly preserved  houses with splendid frescoes, public baths, shops of all kinds and slogans of political propaganda on the walls, all from the Roman era are brought to life. This and much more is what appears before the eyes of a modern visitor.

Brief History of Pompeii

Pompeii, a small Roman town , together with Herculaneum and other neighboring towns, was completely buried by ash and pumice stones during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.Only in 1748 the excavations of the ancient Roman town began in order  to bring to light its monuments.Today this archaeological site is of great importance in Roman archeology for two main reasons:

1. Since the fall of the Roman empire  Barbaric  invasions have progressively destroyed the opulent cities of the ancient world, leaving few poor traces of their past glory. But Pompeii is an exception. In the Middle Ages, during the barbaric invasions, Pompeii was hidden and buried under a thick blanket of ash and pumice stones. For many centuries no one ever knew exactly the place of its burial. Therefore, the  town has never suffered the complete destruction that marked the fate of the entire ancient world.
2. Thanks to the absence of oxygen, two thousand years later, Pompeii has given the whole world incredible examples of the everyday life of the first imperial period (I century A.D.): houses, spa buildings, shops, streets, brothels, but also frescoes with vivid colours, colonnades, statues, jewelry, surgical instruments, ladles, spoons, knives, amphorae, etc and even 81 loaves of bread were found in the bakery which belonged to a certain Modestus.  Despite the heavy bombardment in 1943 by the Allies’ bombs which  destroyed a large area, your archaeologist will show you some parts of the Pompeii ruins not exposed to that destruction or brought to light after the Second World War.

N.B.: The entrance fees are not included