The Best of Pompeii Tour: Unveiling the Buried City

From August 6th, all Italy sites we visit will require clients and guides alike to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test completed within 48 hours prior to entry. They will also require a legal form of ID matching the vaccination or test results. This does not apply to children under 12. You can read more about it here.

If you tried to see all the highlights of Pompeii by yourself you could spend days wandering the ruins and still miss a lot of them. When you go with an expert certified guide, one who has worked on these very ruins no less, the lost city comes alive with the stories and artifacts of the past.

Skipping the long entrance lines, you and your small group of 15 people or fewer will embark on a journey into the heart of an ancient Roman city, both destroyed and incredibly preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79.

As your guide tells you the exciting and tragic story of the city's rise and fall, you'll visit all the most popular sites, like the stunning Roman Forum with its views of Mt. Vesuvius, ancient fast food restaurants, private villas, apartment buildings, temples, theaters, bath houses, and (if age appropriate) a brothel featuring risqué frescoes of the type of, ahem, services rendered.

You'll also visit the famous plaster death casts of people who were killed in the eruption that buried the city.

As you move through the site, your archaeologist guide will bring the old stones to life with stories about the people who used to live here, their lives, beliefs, and customs. You'll learn what they ate and drank, what they did for fun, and why, when Mt Vesuvius started to spray ash into the sky, they made no attempt to evacuate the city. Like all of our services, we only work with 5-star guides on our Pompeii tour. They are carefully chosen for their grasp of history and the ability to interpret it into an almost familiar image.

There is no archaeological site in the world quite like Pompeii and when you see it with Walks, past and present mingle in a tour of epic scope and detail.