Private Half Day Tour to Pompeii

Sightseeing  :  Italy  :  Campania And Naples  :  Naples  :  Private Sightseeing Tours

Depart from your hotel or cruise ship to take a tour to the ancient town of Pompeii. Stop at the Pompeii ruins entrance where you'll meet (if this is the selected tour option) your licensed tour guide. Otherwise, after having bought the ticket, you will get inside the ruins and enjoy it by yourself. Guilty of decimating Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79, Mt Vesuvius looms over the Bay of Naples like a beautiful, silent menace. Stopped in their tracks by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum and Pompeii offer the best look anywhere at what life in Rome must have been like around 2,000 years ago.Begin the day with a pickup from your accommodation or the cruise port at approximately 8:30am and stop to visit the ruins for roughly 2 hours. Founded in 600 B.C., a once-thriving commercial port of 20,000, Pompeii grew from Greek and Etruscan roots to become an important Roman city. Then on August 24, A.D. 79, everything changed. Vesuvius erupted and began to bury the city under 30 feet of hot volcanic ash. For the archaeologists who excavated it centuries later, this was a shake-and-bake windfall, teaching them volumes about daily Roman life. Today Pompeii as well Herculaneum offer the best look anywhere at what life in Rome must have been like around 2,000 years ago. This city of well-preserved ruins is yours to explore. Not rich, not poor, it was middle class—a perfect example of typical Roman life.