Tourist attractions Ercolano

These small baths date back to Augustus’ reign. Visitors see the men's baths with palestra, changing rooms, frigidarium with frescoed ceiling, tepidarium and caldarium, then the women's baths with waiting room, changing rooms with mosaic pavement..

The volcano’s familiar yet menacing profile is the dominant feature of the Bay of Naples . Inextricably linked though it is to the disaster of Pompeii, the lower slopes of Vesuvius are today fertile land planted with fruit trees and vines producing ..

Covering 80km from Pozzuoli in the north to Sorrento in the south, the Bay of Naples makes for an expansive panorama: to the west the Phlegraean Fields with their intense geological activity; to the south the wild and rugged Sorrento peninsula (cliff..

Several rooms of the National Archaeological Museum are devoted to this villa discovered in Herculanum in the 18C. The Papyrus Room (n o 114) contains photographs of some of the 800 papyruses that were housed in the library. The bronze statue..

These rooms of the National Archaeological Museum house objects and paintings from the temple discovered at Pompeii . The focus is on three spaces, partially reconstructed here: the portico, the ekklesiasterion (where Isis's followers would gath..

These rooms of the National Archaeological Museum house exquisite frescoes from Pompeii , Herculanum and Stabies. The diversity of styles and colours is testimony to the incredible richness of Roman decoration. There are splendid paintings ins..

Housed in a 16C building, this museum’s collections are essentially composed of works from the Farnese collection ( Greco-Roman sculpture ), and objects found at Herculanum and Pompeii. This makes it one of the world’s richest selections of Greek and..

The first mystery is where in fact are the wall paintings which made the reputation of this villa? They are very hard to find in this maze of rooms. The second mystery is that of the paintings themselves; on a red Pompeiian background is a splendid f..

This is without doubt the most attractive house in Pompeii. It has been faithfully reconstructed (the roof of the atrium has just been restored) and it has a delightful garden with statues, basins and fountains. The frescoes in the triclimium depic..

The oldest baths in Pompeii (2C BC) were comprised of a section for women and a section for men. To the left of the palestra are a changing room and a pool. Beyond, to the right, are the women's baths: changing rooms with lockers, a tepidarium and a ..

This is the main square where everything happened in ancient times. The large pedestrianised area was the setting for the city’s main public buildings – the great basilica where judicial and business matters were conducted, the macellum (covered ma..

An inscription states that this bakery belonged to Sextus Patulus Felix. In the shop and back room of the baker's you can see mills and a large oven.

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 fre..

This house is equipped with a shop its counter opened onto the street. Mosaics depicting Neptune and Amphitrite decorate the nymphaeum

This rich patrician mansion is probably the most beautiful among those overlooking the bay. It is decorated with many frescoes and artworks, including an admirable sculptured group of stags (cervi) being attacked by dogs.

The house gets its name from the wooden trellis which formed the framework (graticcio) of the walls. It is the only ancient example of this construction technique.

The atrium of this villa is paved with a chequered mosaic, hence its name. On the right, you will see a garden surrounded by a peristyle. On the left, you will see bedrooms and a pleasant triclinium or dining-room at the far end. The terrace, flanked..

The collections of the Farnese, inherited from the Bourbons and added to down the years, form the nucleus of the gallery.The essentially chronological presentational layout allows visitors to trace major movements in the history of Italian art, and c..

Nestling between a rocky islet and the jetty linking it to the shore, the port of Santa Lucia has preserved its charm. The Castel dell'Ovo or “Egg Castle” is a severe Norman structure, remodelled by the Angevins, which takes its name from the magic e..

Surrounded by a deep moat, the imposing Castel Nuovo was built in 1282 by Charles I of Anjou’s architects, Pierre de Chaulnes and Pierre d’Agincourt, using Angers castle as their model. On the city side, a fine triumphal arch (1467) marks the entra..