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Skip the Line Ancient Herculaneum Walking Tour
4.7
29 Ratings
Ercolano
Skip the line and explore the ancient ruins of Herculaneum on a 2.5-hour walking tour. Discover the highlights of this Roman city with a top-rated guide and learn about its customs and traditions. Join a small group and experience the original pavement and stunning frescoes.
Skip the line and explore the ancient ruins of Herculaneum on a 2.5-hour walking tour. Discover the highlights of this Roman city with a top-rated guide and learn about its customs and traditions. Join a small group and experience the original pavement and stunning frescoes.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Parco Archeologico di Ercolano - Enjoy a private guided tour lasting 2 hours.
- Herculaneum Tours - Our knowledgeable guide will bring the city to life, allowing you to envision the private lives of Ancient Romans. This tour covers the most fascinating sites of this ancient city. Immerse yourself in a unique world, stepping into Roman houses…
- Parco Archeologico di Ercolano - Enjoy a private guided tour lasting 2 hours.
- Herculaneum Tours - Our knowledgeable guide will bring the city to life, allowing you to envision the private lives of Ancient Romans. This tour covers the most fascinating sites of this ancient city. Immerse yourself in a unique world, stepping into Roman houses where you can almost hear the owners’ voices calling to each other. You’ll see unique features like original doors and shop furnishings. Don’t miss their favorite spot: the thermal baths.
- Casa di Nettuno e Anfitrite - Our expert guide will lead you to explore this highlight of the Herculaneum ruins.
- College of the Augustales - Join our expert tour guide to uncover the highlights of the ancient Herculaneum ruins.
- La Terrazza di M. Nonio Balbo - Our guide will showcase one of the highlights of the Herculaneum ruins.
- Casa del Rilievo di Telefo - Our guide will provide key information about one of the highlights of the Herculaneum ruins.
What's Included
- Local guide
- Professional guide
- Professional art historian guide
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- All activities
- Local guide
- Professional guide
- Professional art historian guide
- Guaranteed to skip the long lines
- All activities
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information
Join our expert guides for an incredible 2-hour walk through the ruins of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This small city, located on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, was buried during the volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Now, 2000 years after that tragic event, you have the opportunity to walk on the original pavement and explore the city.
You will be…
Join our expert guides for an incredible 2-hour walk through the ruins of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This small city, located on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, was buried during the volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Now, 2000 years after that tragic event, you have the opportunity to walk on the original pavement and explore the city.
You will be guided through the highlights of this Roman city while learning in detail about ancient customs and traditions. Among the main attractions, you will see the “Palestra” (gym) and houses with walls adorned with stunning frescoes, such as Casa di Nettuno e Anfritrite, Casa dello Scheletro, Casa dell’Alcova, and Casa del Salone Nero.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Location
Ercolano Scavi
You will meet the guide at the Herculaneum ruins tickets office
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(29 Ratings)
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Lou_m
Nov 20, 2024
Herculaneum walking tour - Loved hearing about the history. Italo was very knowledgeable and well spoken. He answered all our questions with ease.
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Sueclugston
Jun 11, 2024
A tour brings this wonderful place alive. - My daughter and I booked a 2 hour private tour. Every minute was packed with engaging and interesting information from our excellent guide- on reflection two hours was not enough.
At some point in the future we’ll return and request 3 hours- possible with a15 minute break to give our guide and ourselves a rest half way.
We had already had a similar private tour of Pompei which was so useful as our guide was able to draw comparisons and contrasts between these two very different communities.
The infrastructure of Herculaneum is even more sophisticated than Pompei ( which was jaw dropping enough) and the architecture better preserved. Again- exquisite frescoes, mosaics and beautiful garden rooms.
I understand that, during our 2 hours we were taken to an example of all the different types of important buildings- but there remained a great deal to see and understand.
The small museum in the grounds holds superlative examples of sculptures, frescoes and every day artefacts. It’s well worth visiting and won’t take long. Also, there were no toilet queues inside on the day we went.
Take food or snacks with you if you are likely to be hungry. There is an area with outside tables and chairs in the shade, but the food and drink vending machines available were temperamental. Wouldn’t accept contactless payment and we had only a few euros in change.
The company ( Herculaneum Tours) were incredibly helpful and flexible when we had an issue with trains.
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Bengoodale
May 24, 2024
Excellent guide tailored to our experience - Italo was our guide. He was very knowledgeable and took us round at a good pace. For two of us we’d been to Herculaneum before, but we learned and saw new things As we had a good knowledge of Roman history and had also all visited Pompeii, Italo tailored the tour to what we knew and expanded on it rather than just running through a pre set dialogue. Highly recommend.
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Passenger43288234413
May 7, 2024
Illuminating - A very educational visit about the life of the city of Herculaneum and its tragic end. Especially with the human support of Gabriel Casavega
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944hazeli
Sep 22, 2023
Loved our tour of Herculaneum with Francesca. - Francesca was an amazing tour guide. She showed her knowledge of the site and was open to answering questions etc. Although it is smaller than Pompeii it is just as fascinating. The museum was amazing and Francesca really seemed to enjoy showing it to us. She had a great sense of humour and was very helpful. I would say to book a full day tour and if you get Francesca you are in for a treat.
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Dream259277
Jun 21, 2023
We’ll Worth It! - What a memorable afternoon! Our guide was friendly, knowledgeable, gracious, and very thoughtful about the difference between the stories told and what the evidence shows. Fantastic!
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Dream315227
Apr 10, 2023
Perfectly pitched “private” tour - This was our first experience of arranging a private tour guide. It was expensive but it meant that we had a fantastically detailed tour and, as a student of History of Art and Archaeology, Anna shared some interesting observations, particularly on the pigment and mosaic methods used in some of the findings from the site.
Anna and the local guides are focussed on arranging their groups so that they have access to specific points of interest at differing times. But not sure how that plays out in high season. The bigger groups were spoken to and marched around - being with Anna was a much less frenetic experience, allowed to ask lord of questions - and her sense of humour and enthusiasm for the place was highly welcomed.
A huge thank you to Anna for taking her away from the family on Easter Sunday. It was greatly appreciated. Would highly recommend.
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Fredpurdue
Sep 11, 2020
Photographers challenge the ruins - Our tour was from a cruise ship and was fabulous. Early in the day and without crowds as you would find at Pompeii. It was a resort village, populated with only a few slaves and caretakers when hit by a pyroclastic flow that covered the town to a depth of six meters, preserving it. Wonderful mosaics, frescoes and statues. Photographers will enjoy the subjects of buildings, streets, art, and houses. Do not suggest a tripod, my DSLR with a zoom lens was all I needed. Some rooms are dark, so anticipate using a high ISO. Take shots from the rim above before walking through the tunnel to be in the village. Then you will use the wide-angle a lot.
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Travelerawaywego
Jun 5, 2023
Horrible experience--could not locate Guide and horrible directions provided by Trip Advisor/Viator. Do not recommend. - I would not recommend this activity nor using Trip Advisor and Viator for any tours --terrible exp.
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Occasionsjewellery
Apr 24, 2023
Waste of time - Booked and paid for this included to select hotel pick up, then just a few days before travelling was told that they don’t provide pick at my hotel after all. Wasted my time.
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