Tourist guide of Italy
Pompei
museums and galleries  archaeological ruins  
 

This city, located to the feet of Vesuvius, is one of the visited populations in the whole country. Pompeii is divided in the archaeological area and the modern one. The first one constitutes an entire example of the urbanism of the final period of the Republic and principles of the Empire.

 
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useums and galleries
 
  • Museo Vesuviano

    • Schedules: of 9.00 at dusk.

      Located to the south-this of the excavations, it contains an intersante collection of objects and archaeological remains.

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rchaeological ruins
 
  • Villa Imperiale

    • Near to Marina it Carries it they are even not the complex remains of this wide one dug completely.

  • Tempio di Venus

    • It dates of the time silana.

  • Piazza del Foro

    • It was the center of the civic life and to their surroundings they were the public buildings and more important temples. Of Apollo's Temple the basement is conserved and in the north side it was the one dedicated to Jupiter and that it got up in the century II to.C. This square also housed the market - Macellum -, Eumachia, headquarters of the corporation of weavers and makers of cloths, and the Basilica, where justice was administered.

  • Foro Triangolare

    • This space houses Hercules' it Tempers, in style dótico, and the Great theater, built between the 200 and the 150 to.C. and that it housed about 5.000 spectators.

  • Via dell`Abbondanza

    • In this street the fullonica can be admired I gave Stefano - laundry and dry cleaner's - and the house of Criptopórtico in whose cabinets the molds can be observed of some of the opposing bodies during the excavations.

  • Casa del Menandro

    • Residence of the imperial time that allows to admire an atrium of doric columns, a luxurious peristyle and grandiose rooms.

  • Casa Loreius Tiburtinus

    • Elegant residence with paintings that represent scenes of Ilíada and a beautiful garden watered by channels.

  • Anfiteatro

    • It is the oldest amphitheater that one knows -80 to.C.- and it could house some 12.000 people.

  • Terme Stabiane

    • In these thermal baths, the best conserved of Pompeii, one can see a pool, gymnastic rooms and the bathrooms divided by sexes.

  • Casa delle Nozze d`Argento

    • Nobleman house that suffered reformations during the Empire.

  • Casa dei Vettii

    • Important example of luxurious residence where interesting paintings of the fourth style can be observed.

  • Casa degli Amorini Dorati

    • This residence of times of Nerón is formed by two rooms decorated with paintings and an oratory dedicated the goddess Isis.

  • Casa del Fauno

    • It is one of the noble biggest residences and that it highlights for their two peristyles - one of them with 28 columns.

  • Villa di Diomede

    • Located to the outskirts of the city, it highlights for their great garden surrounded by a piazza.

  • Villa dei Misteri

    • It is the most outstanding building in Pompeii and in her they are the famous paintings to the cool air that represent the inciación to the mysteries dionisíacos and that they date of the century I to.C.

  • Casa del Poeta Tragico

    • It contains some well conserved mosaics.