TWO-HOUR GUIDED TOUR OF POMPEII AND ITS ROMAN MORTAR WITH AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

Private Tour

(admission tickets not included)

Tour Duration

2 Hours

Tour Availability

All year long

Meeting Point

By the Bar Sgambati at Pompeii

Photo Gallery

Tour Description

What makes this tour special?

Enjoy with us a two-hour guided tour of Pompeii with an expert archaeologist: you’ll visit some of the typical Domus (dwellings), Thermal baths, the Forum, the well-known plaster casts and much more. Visiting this splendid archaeological site, your guide will also provide you with specific information about the lime and the Pompeian building materials that made the Roman Empire invincible for centuries.

With Skip the Line Access you won’t waste your precious time: your tour guide will help you purchase the admission tickets through a specific access.

What makes this tour different from all others is the fact that you’ll explore Pompeii with a private – just for you – English-speaking guide, who is archaeologist and expert of the Roman materials and mortar.

What’s included

Great Pompeii Project

In 2015 the European Union committed 105 million euros for the “Grande Progetto Pompeii” (Great Pompeii Project), for many restoration works of the archaeological site of Pompeii [Community Decision. C (2012) 2154 of 29 March 2012]. An ever growing areas can be visited, as well as neighborhoods of the ancient city until a few years ago totally crumbling, has been restored. Our guided visit will show you some of the best parts renovated thus far and open to public.

Why is our guided of Pompeii so unique?

This tour offers certainly unique features: the visit of an extraordinary Roman place with a private archaeologist and historian – just for you. Moreover, the same guide has carried out specific studies on the ancient concrete, the material that has allowed the Romans to create the largest empire in human history, in relation to the known lands.The archaeological visit will be carried out according to the classical method, showing you some of the most representative monuments of the Vesuvian city, enriching the tour with specific information on the materials and the concrete used by the ancient Romans.

Few words about the Roman Mortar

The formula of the Roman concrete begins with the use of lime: the ancient builders burned limestone to produce lime and then added water to create a mix. Then they began to add volcanic ash to the lime, according to the Vitruvius’ suggestions. The volcanic ash reacted with the lime mixture to create a resistant mortar that was mixed with pieces of brick or volcanic rock (tuff). This innovative technology was born in Rome between the IV and III centuries BC. Other ancient societies, such as the Greeks, probably had also used mortar based on lime, but the combination of mortar with an aggregate like brick or tuff to make concrete was certainly a Roman invention. The extraordinary preservation of Pompeii ruins makes quite visible the different uses that the Romans made of concrete.

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