Pompeii private tour:
The lost city with just your group
Destination
Pompeii, Italy
Duration
2.5 hours
Tour size
Max 6
Language
English
Overview
Pompeii is vast, barely labeled, and easy to misread on your own. This Pompeii private tour puts a real archaeologist beside your group alone, walking the ancient streets at your pace and translating the frescoes, fast-food counters, and plaster casts into the Roman city they once were. No crowd to follow, no fixed script, just you and an expert.
- •Walk the Roman Forum and bathhouses that still show their ancient plumbing
- •Read the political graffiti and marble-topped fast-food counters on the main street
- •Step inside Domus homes painted with vivid frescoes and mosaics
- •Stand before the plaster casts of those caught in the eruption
- •Set the pace yourself, with a guide who tracks the newest excavations
What's included
- Pre-reserved entrance tickets to Pompeii
- A private official archaeologist guide for your group only
- Pre-reserved entrance tickets to Pompeii
- A private official archaeologist guide for your group only
You will visit
- The Roman Forum
- A Roman theater and the baths
- Domus houses with frescoes and mosaics
- The main street, ancient shops, and the brothel
- The plaster casts of the eruption's victims
- New excavation sites and a panoramic view of the city
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What to expect
The public city
You'll walk into Pompeii's civic heart, the Roman Forum, with the theater and bathhouses nearby, the baths still showing the channels of their ancient plumbing. Along the main street your guide points out the political graffiti and the marble-topped counters where Romans bought hot food, standing as they were centuries ago. Because it's private, you stop wherever your curiosity takes you.
Inside the homes
You'll step into preserved Domus houses, the homes of Pompeii's elite, where vivid frescoes and intricate mosaics survive on the walls. Your archaeologist reads the rooms for you, from the layout of daily life to the brothel that surprises most visitors. It's the closest you'll get to standing in a Roman household.
"On a private tour I follow your interests. If you're fascinated by the frescoes, we stay. If it's the casts, we linger. The day is yours, not a schedule's."
Enzo,
Pompeii archaeologist guide
"My favorite detail is the graffiti. Election slogans, insults, jokes scratched into walls two thousand years ago...people always find it a bit funny to realize Romans were just like us."
Francesca,
Pompeii archaeologist guide
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