Herculaneum Guided Archaeological Walking Tour

You cannot miss the chance to visit Herculaneum when you're in Naples and Pompeii area.
The ancient Roman city of Herculaneum is a UNESCO World Heritage site and lies just north of Pompeii.
Explore the ruins with an archaeologist guide and benefit from a smaller group size of max 20 people, meaning more chance to ask your guide questions and learn how the city was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Guided walking tour of Herculaneum Gain historical insight from an archaeologist guide Skip-the-line tickets means no waiting in long queues

Meeting Point

Archaeological Park of Herculaneum

Corso Resina, 187, 80056 Ercolano NA, Italy

Outside Herculaneum ticket Office building in Herculaneum ruins archaeological park.

What's included:

• 2 hrs live guidance by an archaeologist licensed guide
• skip the line admission fees

Not included:

• transportation
• personal expenses

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Casa dei Cervi

Cardo V, Sito Archeologico di Ercolano, Ercolano

The house receives its name from marble statues of stags/deer found in the peristyle.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo

Ercolano

M. Nonius Balbus was the city's major benefactor restoring and building many public buildings. On his death he was made patron and feted with many honours, detailed in the long inscription on his funeral altar.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

College of the Augustales

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

It is thought that the building was a centre of the cult of the Emperor Augustus and the headquarters of the Collegium Augustalium (or possibly even the local curia).

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Casa del Rilievo di Telefo

Ercolano

The house possibly belonged to one of the town's leading benefactors, Marcus Nonius Balbus and is somewhat unusual in that it has its own private access to the adjoining Suburban Thermae to the south.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Partem Domus lignea - Casa del Tramezzo di Legno

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

It is very important house for the elegant wooden partition remained.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

House of the Skeleton

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

The House of the Skeleton probably the aggregation of three smaller buildings, derives its name from the discovery of human remains in a second floor room in 1831.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Central Thermae

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

The Central Thermae were built around the beginning of the 1st century AD and were divided, as was then the common practice, into men's and women's baths, each with their own separate entrances.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Casa del Salone Nero

Herculaneum Archeological Park, the junction of Cardo IV with the Decumanus Maximus, Ercolano

The House of the Black Hall is one of Herculaneum's more luxurious mansions.
The house has a monumental entrance which still retains the carbonised remains of the doorposts and lintel.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Casa Sannitica

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

The house has an arrangement that was typical of the Samnites (an ancient people of the Sabine race who occupied this mountainous part of central Italy). The splendid atrium is skirted by a gallery with Ionic columns. The rooms are decorated with frescoes.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Casa del Bel Cortile

Ercolano

This is one of the most original houses in Herculaneum. It has a courtyard with a stairway and a stone balcony instead of an atrium.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

House of the Grand Portal

Herculaneum Archeological Park, Ercolano

Beautiful domus in the Centre of the archaeological area, with various environments, collonnati, frescos e-com everywhere at Herculaneum-charred remains of wooden parts.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included