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POMPEII AND OPLONTIS GUIDED TOUR WITH AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE
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POMPEII AND OPLONTIS GUIDED TOUR WITH A PRIVATE ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE:
DURATION: | 5/6 hours | |
PRICE: | According to the number of participants | |
AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
| English-speaking driver & Air-conditioned Mercedes (or similar make) at your disposal for 5/6 hours A private English-speaking guide for 4 hours in the excavations of Pompeii and Oplontis ENTRANCE FEES NOT INCLUDED | |
Itinerary Details are listed below:
TOUR SCHEDULE OF POMPEII AND OPLONTIS
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| Meeting with our English-speaking driver and his Mercedes car (with air-conditioning) by Your hotel/cruiseship |
| Arrival to Pompeii ruins and private visit (2 hours) of the site with an English-speaking guide |
| 1 hour of free time for lunch - lunch not included |
| Transfer (with the same guide) to the excavations of Oplontis |
| 1,5 hour visit of Oplontis |
| Back to the hotel/cruiseship |
Full day guided excursion to the famous Archeological excavations of Pompeii and Oplontis, destroyed in the A. D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Pompeii holds an intense fascination for visitors today. Following the eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D., Pompei lay buried and forgotten for hundreds of years. The
town is high on the list of Wonders of the World and the excavations begun in the 18th century are still being carried out today. Our guide will take you slowly some of the ancient streets
of Pompeii where you can see Baths, the Forum and houses built the prosperous Romans. Among the structures uncovered was The Forum of Pompeii, a group of temples, courts, and
palaces that served as the city’s legislative center.
Even if your interests do not lie in history, this is an archelogical site that you cannot be failed to be impressed by.
Oplontis is not far from Pompeii, about three miles, and corresponds to the present day town of Torre Annunziata.
Systematic excavations at Oplontis between 1964 and 1984 unearthed several important villas, most notably “Villa B”, a house that is now known to be the Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius. Inside the Villa, excavators found piles of jars called amphorae, which were known to hold goods such as wine, oil, and other agricultural products. Because of the presence of the amphorae, the building was thought to be a sort of business center where these goods were manufactured, processed, and sold.
These finds, together with some public baths that were excavated there in 1834, help identify Oplontis as a middle-sized town. Though it was peripheral to Pompeii and under its administrative control, Oplontis had sufficient infrastructure to suggest that it was a well-developed residential centre.
THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS IS A PRIVATE SHORE EXCURSION WITH PRICES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN YOUR PARTY!
VISIT POMPEII RUINS WITH THE AUDIO SYSTEMS
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This house is attributed to M. Lucretius because his name appears as addressee on a letter depicted, with a kit for writing letters, in a wall painting in a room near the garden. He was an important figure who held the office of decurion in the city and was a priest of Mars. This patrician house had fine wall paintings, now mostly in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. In the atrium there are still some frescoes in IV style with imaginary architectures, and in the tablinum the Triumphs of Bacchus with a satyr and a Victory. There must also have been various panel paintings in the tablinum which unfortunately have been lost. The atrium lacks a central impluvium and ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 3, 2, 4) Ingredients:
- 8 small beetroot
- 100 ml mead (or sweet white wine with a tablespoon of honey)
- 40 ml olive oil
- Chicken pieces part-cooked in the oven (about 15 chunks)
- Sea salt
- Black pepper to taste
Instructions:
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Cleaned well the beetroot, put them in a saucepan and add the mead, olive oil, salt and pepper and enough water to cover. Bring the liquid to the boil, add the chicken and continue cooking until the beetroot are done. Drain and serve immediately.
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.