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Location: Sorrento, Amalfi Coast

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Enjoy a day inside the archaeological ruins of Herculaneum, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the best preserved ancient cities in the world. Pick up from our meeting point in the center of Sorrento and departure to Herculaneum with a guided tour inside the ruins, after that return to Sorrento.
A smaller but no less important city, submerged by the eruption of Vesuvius 79 d.c. Numerous objects found during the excavations allow us to reconstruct what was the relationship of the inhabitants with the gods venerated in antiquity. You have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the daily life of the population of Herculaneum through the scattered ruins that have been perfectly preserved.

• Explore the ruins of Herculaneum with a local expert archaeological guide for 1.5 hrs
• Entrance ticket included in Herculaneum

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Departure from Sorrento by our meeting point
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Transfer by bus to Herculaneum and visit of the ruins with our authorized guide for an archeologial tour of 1.5 hrs. Once a small and sophisticated Roman city, Herculaneum was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The site is still perfectly preserved, has remains of streets, houses and villas excavated that visitors can admire.
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The house of the Hotel is an house of roman times, buried during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and found following the archaeological excavations of Herculaneum. The house of the Hotel is located on the edge of the hill, in a panoramic position, with its two thousand hundred and fifty square meters is the largest house of Herculaneum so far discovered and is also the only one of the city to own a spa district was for these reasons considered at first to be a hotel.
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The Sacellum of the Augustales was built near the forum when Emperor Augustus was still alive and in power. It is a building with a quadrangular plan that preserves the splendid frescoes that represent: Hercules entering the Olympus in the company of Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Hercules against Achelous. The janitor’s skeleton was found in his room lying on the bed.
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The luxurious house with sea view terrace belonged to Q. Granius Verus, a slave freed shortly before the destruction of Herculaneum. In the garden there are two statues of deer assaulted by a pack of dogs, from these the house takes its name
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The house of the black salon owes its name to its party hall entirely painted in black with geometric patterns. In this house were found waxed tablets of L. Venidius Ennychus who is supposed to have owned the house. The tablets speak of her eligibility for Augustale, the purchase of a slave, and the birth of a daughter.
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The skeleton house is probably the result of the aggregation of three smaller buildings, and its name derives from the discovery of human remains in a second-floor room in 1831.
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Truly enchanting are the mosaics in glass paste, (very expensive for the time), with floral and hunting scenes and in a central position the mosaic with Neptune and Amphitrite , (the marine deity and his companion)
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Transfer back to Sorrento bu bus.

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Posted By : debbieek2021
The tour was wonderful
The guide was fantastic made the whole experience very interesting
One of the best tours we’ve ever done
Rating : full ratings
Posted On : 2024-06-11 05:00:28

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