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THREE-HOUR PRIVATE TOUR OF POMPEII WITH AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE
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THREE-HOUR TOUR OF POMPEII WITH A PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH-SPEAKING GUIDE :
DURATION: | 3 hours | |
PRICE: | EUROS 200 | |
AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
| An English-speaking guide at your disposal for 3 hours ENTRANCE FEES ARE NOT INCLUDED
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Meeting with your private English-speaking guide by the entrance of Porta Marina Superiore.
The morning of 24 August AD 79 was a day like any other. In the town of Pompeii, the inhabitants were living their lives as always. Suddenly in the air a deafening crash resounded and the ground started to shake. Few hours later Pompeii and other nearby towns were completely buried under several metres of pumice and ashes, in the same tragic fate.
This private 3-hour tour with a private English-speaking guide will introduce you to the destruction and excavation of Pompeii with a look at the town and its history, its houses ans shops, relating them to the people who lived there. Moreover it also takes a look at the places of relaxation and entertainment like the baths, the theatres and the amphitheatre. Pompeii was discovered in the 1590s, but it was not until 1748 that exacavations really began. In the 1860s, an Italian archeologist named Giuseppe Fiorelli pionereed the technique of pouring plaster into the impressions the rotted bodies had left in the ash creating detailed plaster casts of the victims in their final moments. Nearly 2000 years later, Pompeii gives us an incredibile record of everyday life at the time of Roman Empire.
THIS IS A PRIVATE DAY TOUR WITH A PRICE NOT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN YOUR PARTY!
THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.THIS THREE-HOUR TOUR IN POMPEII RUINS COSTS EUROS 200. THE ENTRANCE FEE IS NOT INCLUDED.
VISIT POMPEII RUINS WITH THE AUDIO SYSTEMS
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This temple was built after the earthquake of 62 A.D. and was dedicated to Pompeii’s tutelary gods as an act of expiation for the calamity the town had suffered. Although it had not been completed at the moment of the eruption, what remain suggests that its architecture was quite unusual. It was completely open on the side looking onto the Forum and could be reached through a portico adjoining the colonnade on the Forum, the bases of which are still visible. The temple had no roof and was floored with coloured marble arranged in a geometrical design. In the centre stood an altar, of which few remains can now be seen. In the rear wall a niche probably housed three st ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 3, 4, 3) Ingredients:
- 1 gourd (or courgette, small pumpkin or squash)
- peppercorns
- cumin
- coriander seeds
- 3 - 4 mint leaves, shredded
- 1 garlic
- 3 tbsp vinegar
- 50 g dates, finely chopped
- 50 g blanched almonds, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp clear honey
- 60 ml Liquamen (or, in this case, vegetable stock)
- 4 tbsp Defritum (or Wine or Grape Juice reduced by two thirds)
- 20 ml olive oil (or 25g butter)
- Sea salt to taste
Instructions:
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FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.