Tour of Herculaneum
Roman era houses
Overview of your Herculaneum tour:
Join us in this archaeological tour!
As your personal Archaeologists we will be happy to share our knowledge with you.
Herculaneum was buried by the eruption of the Vesuvius in the 79 A. D. by about 20 meters (60 feet) of pyroclastic material. For this reason here you can see very well preserved entire buildings in two floors. At the moment only about the 30% of the ancient city is excavated and the ruins show us a lot of private buildings that conserved carbonized wooden furniture of the Roman times.
Nowadays Herculaneum is not very known like Pompeii and for this reason the visit here is less crowded and more quite and intimate.
Can't wait to meet you and to answer all your questions and curiosities you have about archaeology and roman time.
Your Herculaneum tour itinerary
We will see some private houses of ancient wealthy Romans, decorated with spectacular mosaics, frescos and stucco decorations.
Also, thanks to the particular flood of pyroclastic material that buried the city we'll show and explain you the reason of the carbonized wooden furnitures and why in Herculaneum is impossible to make the plaster casts of the victims.
We will see also some shops that characterized the daily life in the ancient city.