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POMPEII TWO-HOUR TOUR (WITH THE FORBIDDEN POMPEII)
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DURATION OF THE TOUR: |
2 hours |
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PRICE: |
According to the number of participants |
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All-year-round |
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ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED
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Meeting with your private English-speaking guide by the entrance of Porta Marina Superiore.
Enjoy a great two-hour private visit with a real English-speaking guide in the ancient Pompeii. Today Pompeii is chocked with more than 3 million visitors every year: only by escaping the hordes and lingering along its silent streets shown by your guide, you can truly fall under the site’s spell.
On a quiet backstreet, all you need is a little imagination to sense the shadow palpably filling the dark corners, to hear the ancient pipe,s falsetto, to envision a rain of rose petals gently covering a Roman senator’s dinner guests.
THIS IS A PRIVATE DAY VISIT WITH A PRICE NOT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN YOUR PARTY!
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
The house may have belonged to one or the other of these two patrician personages whose names appears more than once in the election slogans painted on the facade. The house is Samnite in type and the tall entrance portal leads to a vestibule with a mosaic pavement in which the portal itself and a chained dog are depicted. Next come the atrium decorated with mosaic panels with figures of animals. This had already been damaged in the earthquake of 62 A.D., as had the style IV wall paintings, of which only two still life survive. At the centre of the pavement, an alabaster tondo is surrounded by a double guilloche motif, palmettes and animals in panels. After this co ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 2, 2, 9) Ingredients:
- Basically, chicken fricassee..
- 1 whole chicken, deboned or 2 boneless, skinless thighs, 2 boneless, skinless breasts chopped into pieces
- 2 bunches of leeks, usually 3-5 of them in a bunch cut into pieces and washed
- 1 small bunch of dill weed, or about 1 tsp. dried
- 3 qt. water or 1.5 qt. each chicken broth and water, keeping back 2 cups for later
- black pepper to taste
- celery seed to taste
- 2/3 cup of rice flour
- fish sauce to taste
- 3 tbs. red wine
Instructions:
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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.