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SIX-HOUR GUIDED TOUR OF POMPEI WITH AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE
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SIX-HOUR TOUR OF POMPEII WITH AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE:
DURATION: | 5 hours + 1 hour break at lunch time | |
PRICE: | EUROS 520 | |
AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
| A professional English-speaking guide at your disposal for 6 hours (5 hours of visit + 1 hour break at lunch time - lunch is NOT included) ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED
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Meeting with your private English-speaking guide by the entrance of Porta Marina Superiore.
The archaelogical site can be easily reached either from Naples or from Sorrento ( approx. 30 Km from Naples or 20 from Sorrento). Your guide will meet You by the entrance of “Porta Marina Superiore”, (near the Pompeii – Villa dei Misteri Circumvesuviana train station). The visit of Pompeii ruins begins from the Forum and its majestic temples. It continues all along the main street flanked by different kind of shops, the area of the theatres, patrician dwellings such Domus Ceii embellished with wall-paintings and mosaic floors. We walk along Via dell’Abbondanza and we visit of the area of the amphitheatre. We get back to the Stabian Thermal Baths as well the striking plaster-casts of human bodies, victims of the tragic eruption of the 79 A.D, to the Lupanare Brothel. We’ll have the chance to take a glance at a typical Bakery of Pompeii. After the visit of The house of the Hunting - we have spent already roughly 3 hours of visit - we can have a lunch break to the unique bar of the ruins- lunch is not included. After a little rest we can complete the other 2 hours of guided tour: the House of the Faun, Vetti’s House, the House of the small fountain, the House of the big fountain. The Northern part of the Forum will be covered after lunch: the Forum, the Palace of Justice, the Curia, the Food Market, etc. To conclude this in-depth archeological visit, we’ll reach on foot the famous Villa of the Misteries.
SUGGESTIONS:
Take water, wear comfortable shoes, take camera & sun cream. In low season warmer clothing may be required.
THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS FULL DAY EXCURSION IN POMPEII RUINS COSTS EUROS 380.
THE ENTRANCE FEE IS NOT INCLUDED.
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
Some of the excellent bread for which the area around Vesuvius was renowned was made in this bakery on Via dell’Abbondanza, opposite the House of Trebius Valens. As the building did not include a shop, the bread produced was evidently sold elsewhere. This was one of the thirty-one bakeries and cake shop in the town and the name its reputed owner, Sotericus, appears on the front of the inn next-door. The large workshop where bread was made extended across two older buildings and was equipped with shelves, worktops and a dough kneading machine. The workshop also had an oven, a grain warehouse, a bedroom for the workers and four different-size machines driven by donkey ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 4, 5, 4) Ingredients:
- 1 kg firm ripe apricots or nectarines
- 200 ml white wine
- 250 ml Passum
- peppermint tea bag (portion for one cup)
- ground pepper
- Liquamen or salt
- cornstarch
- a little bit of vinegar
- honey
Instructions:
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Wash, cut and stone apricots. Put them with a little cold water in a pan.
Pulverize ground pepper and dried mint (that's where the tea bag comes handy),
add Liquamen or salt, honey, Passum, wine and vinegar. Pour into the pan with a
little oil. Cook approximately 20 minu ... continue
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.