Beyond the famous sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Oplontis, the Campania region around Vesuvius contains several lesser-known but genuinely rewarding…
Herculaneum is better preserved than Pompeii but smaller. Where Pompeii gives you a complete city to walk through, Herculaneum gives…
A thermopolium (plural: thermopolia) was a Roman street-food counter — a shop with a stone counter embedded with large ceramic…
The Temple of Apollo is the oldest and most important sacred building in Pompeii, predating the Roman period and originating…
The plaster casts are the preserved forms of people and animals who died in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius.…
The Lupanar is Pompeii's best-preserved purpose-built brothel — a two-storey building with five rooms on each floor, original stone beds…
The Pompeii Amphitheatre was built around 70 BC, making it the oldest surviving stone amphitheatre in the Roman world —…
The House of the Vettii is one of Pompeii's best-preserved aristocratic houses, owned by two wealthy freedmen brothers — Aulus…
The House of the Faun is the largest and most lavish private house in Pompeii, covering 3,000 square metres —…
The Villa of the Mysteries is a large Roman suburban villa just outside Pompeii's Porta Ercolano gate, famous for its…
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