Half Day Pompeii

Half Day Pompeii

The tour is designed to deliver the visit of the ruins of Pompeii ( 2-1/2hrs ) on intimate tour with a confortable minivan with a minimum 5 maximum 8 guest 

Explore the most important archeoligical city in the world:

Pompe

Pompeii is today, the most important open-air museum in the world. It was buried under a layer of volcanic ashes in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and yet our archaeology expert promises to bring Pompeii back to life for you with a detailed description of daily life in a Roman town.

The eruption of Vesuvius took the Pompeians totally unprepared. They did not know they live under a volcano because the last eruption took place before Pompeii was founded in the seventh century BC Vesuvius was, therefore, for the Pompeians a peaceful mountain, on whose slopes were cultivated vineyards that produced a widely exported wine in the rest of the empire. In Pompeii ruins are not left inserted in the modern urban fabric, as in other albeit beautiful and important archaeological sites. In Pompeii you can walk the streets and you can enter buildings, in temples, in private homes, in the markets. You can admire the paintings, mosaics, everyday objects, even the skeletons and the casts of the bodies of its inhabitants. This circumstance, absolutely outstanding, provided to historians and archaeologists the opportunity to know habits and customs that we would ignore if the eruption of AD 79 He had not buried the Vesuvian cities. The contact with the daily reality, in fact, is often at odds with what they tell the historical and legal sources. This dichotomy is highlighted in the book, in which are some of the laws and social rules that governed the lives of the Romans, being compared with Pompeian practice, which often looks quite different.