Skip the line Pompeii Guided Tour from Sorrento

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Duration:5 hours (approx.)
Location: Sorrento, Amalfi Coast

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Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the famous archaeological site of Pompeii with an expert official guide on walking tour of 2 hours 30 minutes.
By departing early in the morning, we will bypass the traffic and crowds, guaranteeing a priority arrival at our destination and ensuring a unique experience!
Thanks to the priority entrance you will skip the stress of a long queue and get inside the ruins without trouble!

Walk along the ancient “cardini” and “decumani” and explore the remains of the prosperous Romans.

See the baths, streets, bakeries and forums that were once integral parts of daily life. Marvel at the magnificently preserved frescoes that adorn the fine Villas.

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Departure from Sorrento
2. Pompeii Archaeological Park
Pompeii is a vast archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples. Once a thriving and sophisticated Roman city, Pompeii was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The preserved site features excavated ruins of streets and houses that visitors can freely explore.
3. Basilica
The Basilica, with its extension of 1,500 square meters, was the most sumptuous building of the Forum, and its space was used to carry out business and for the administration of justice.
4. Forum
The Civil Forum is the core of daily life of the city and is the focal point of all the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business management, and trade activities such as markets, as well as the main places of citizen worship.
5. Tempio di Giove Capitolino
The Temple of Jupiter dominates the north side of the Forum, with Mount Vesuvius scenically rising behind. When the colony was founded (80 BC), the temple underwent a radical renovation and became a real Capitolium with the three cult statues of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, which looked like those of the Capitolium in Rome, placed on a high base so as to make them visible to whoever passed in the Forum square.
6. Macellum
The Macellum consists of a tuff quadriporticus with a hall for worship in an elevated position on the eastern side, in line with the entrance. The copies of two marble statues, a female and a male armed, are found on the niches of the side wall, together with the fragment of a larger statue, probably pertaining to an emperor, Titus or Vespasian, indicating how this area was intended for the imperial cult. To its left is a room for meetings of a sacred board and to the right a large room with a masonry counter perhaps for fish to be sold.
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Via dell’Abbondanza was the ancient main street (decumanus maximus) of ancient Pompeii, which ran across the city in the direction east/west from the Forum to the Porta Sarno. In ancient times the street was crowded and noisy with many shops, workshops ("officinae”), cafes, snack-bars and restaurants for food and drink.
8. Stabian Baths (Terme Stabiane)
The Forum Baths are located behind the Temple of Jupiter and date back to the years immediately after the founding of the colony of veterans by General Silla (80 BC). Women's and men's quarters had separate entrances. The men's section presents an apodyterium (dressing room), used also as a tepidarium (for medium temperature baths), frigidarium (for cold baths) and calidarium (for hot baths). Like many buildings in Pompeii, the baths were heavily damaged during the earthquake of 62 AD.
9. Casa del Menandro
The house of the Menander is a great example of a Roman Villa owned by an high-ranking family. It is reachly decorated with wonderful frescoes representing scenes of the Trojan war and here were also founded many objects in silver, tableware now strored in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. The house owes its name to a picture of Menander, an Athenian poet, placed in the portico. The house belonged to Quintus Poppaeus Sabinus of the Poppei family, relatives of the Empress Poppea Sabina, Nero's second wife.
10. Pompeii Archaeological Park
The Large Theater of Pompeii was built from the Romans on the slope of a hill located in the area; they took advantage of the natural depression of the mountain to create a majesty auditorium divided into 5 sectors. On the stage were played tragedies of the Greco-Roman traditions.

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Posted By : Michael_B
Our tour exceeded our expectations. Our tour guide Max was outstanding - both informative and entertaining. Would definitely recommend tour during this time of the year. No crowds and temperate climate.
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Posted On : 2023-12-29 15:25:04

Posted By : Harvey_M
A good and convenient half day trip from Sorrento and was able to skip the line. Our guide was excellent and very knowledgeable about the history and function of the city. He showed us the key parts of Pompei in an efficient way and travel path. I wish the tour had more time though to see other parts. Another two more hours would have been great.
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Posted On : 2023-12-28 12:30:11

Posted By : gloriap445
The guide was knowledgeable and did a great job telling us about the site. However, at the end my husband took the wrong exit and got rather lost. The guide had already left the site so could not help. Our driver was very unfriendly and kept threatening to leave us behind. It was very very stressful. The guide should have stayed until she was sure everyone had exited and found their transportation.
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Posted On : 2023-12-01 10:57:06

Posted By : Carol_B
Good tour with this overall. The tour had many older people with serious physical limitations and went very slowly to accommodate for their needs, which was wonderful. If you are pretty physically active and want to see a lot this may not be the best tour for you.
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Posted On : 2023-11-23 10:02:49

Posted By : Kara_C
Josie gave a wonderful tour. We were there during a light rain, didn’t affect the tour. She was passionate and knowledgeable of Pompeii.
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Posted On : 2023-11-09 15:35:00

Posted By : Todd_K
Very nice tour. Got to see a good part lf Pompeii and learn about history. Thank you very much. Nice tour guide and driver!
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Posted On : 2023-11-08 11:48:16

Posted By : Rocheford_P
A great tour of Pompeii with an enthusiastic and clearly knowledgeable guide. We walked around some of the key features and were given excellent insight to the history of the area.
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Posted On : 2023-11-05 13:18:39

Posted By : Diane_p
This was a half day tour. Professional tour guide, however I did not realize we would not see some of the major sights such as the colosseum on the tour. Overall good but expected to see more.

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Posted On : 2023-10-25 23:08:42

Posted By : Anna_B
Pompeii in and of itself is incredible. It was nice to have transport to the ruins…driving in the region is not recommended for the feint of heart! The tour company had us well organized and our guide was informative. It was extremely crowded so was glad we’d decided to tour with a professional tour company.
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Posted On : 2023-10-25 16:30:03

Posted By : Deanna_M
Tour guide was good and knowledgeable, however ‘half day’ experience is misleading. Be aware that most of the day is transport to and from Pompeii (without any interesting insight along the way). We only spent about 1hr 45 mins in the actual park. Ok if you just want a very brief taste of Pompeii and to say you’d been there. If your expectations are for a more in depth look around- don’t do this your.
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Posted On : 2023-10-25 10:29:25