Villa dei Misteri ★
The villa outside the Herculaneum Gate with the great red frieze of the Dionysian mysteries, restored with lasers.
Pompei: 5 places to start with
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Archaeology Parco Archeologico di Pompei Fiorelli's plaster casts, the Forum and the Villa of the Mysteries in the town Vesuvius sealed. -
Archaeology Pompei Eight centuries of life before the last day, which can be told hour by hour. -
Castles Villa dei Misteri The villa outside the Herculaneum Gate with the great red frieze of the Dionysian mysteries, restored with lasers. -
Castles Casa del Fauno The largest house in Pompeii: the dancing satyr and the Alexander mosaic, with copies in their place. -
Museums Anfiteatro romano di Pompei The oldest stone amphitheatre in the world: twenty thousand seats, the riot of AD 59 and Pink Floyd.
21 places covered in Pompei Grouped by type, most important first.
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Castles, palaces and villas
10Casa del Fauno ★
The largest house in Pompeii: the dancing satyr and the Alexander mosaic, with copies in their place.
Casa del Menandro
The house where the chest of silver was found, and the building work the eruption stopped.
Praedia di Giulia Felice
The estate with the rental notice painted on its wall and the water channel in the garden.
Casa di Sallustio
One of Pompeii's oldest houses, with rented shops and a bakery in the corner.
Villa di Diomede
The villa outside the walls, a Grand Tour star, with the cellars where many sheltered.
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Casa del Centenario (IX.8.6)
The house where the only ancient portrait of Vesuvius was found, covered in vines.
Casa del Principe di Napoli (VI.15.8)
An ordinary family's house, with holes left by those who looted after the eruption.
Casa delle Nozze d'Argento
The house with a four-columned atrium, named after a royal silver wedding.
Casa delle Suonatrici
The Pompeii house named after a small painting of women playing music.
Archaeology
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Parco Archeologico di Pompei ★
Fiorelli's plaster casts, the Forum and the Villa of the Mysteries in the town Vesuvius sealed.
Pompei ★
Eight centuries of life before the last day, which can be told hour by hour.
Terme Stabiane
Pompeii's oldest baths, shut for repairs on the day of the eruption.
Terme Suburbane di Pompei
Pompeii's most modern baths, outside porta Marina, with cloakroom paintings.
Museums, theatres and collections
3Anfiteatro romano di Pompei ★
The oldest stone amphitheatre in the world: twenty thousand seats, the riot of AD 59 and Pink Floyd.
Teatro Grande
The theatre cut into the hill in the Greek way, its acoustics still working.
Antiquarium di Pompei
The museum inside Pompeii, bombed and reopened after thirty-six years.
Churches and places of worship
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Tempio di Apollo
Pompeii's oldest temple, with the Oscan inscription in the floor and Apollo drawing his bow.
Tempio di Iside
The Egyptian sanctuary that thrilled eighteenth-century Europe and the young Mozart, with its Nile water.
Santuario della Beata Vergine del Rosario di Pompei
The shrine grown around a painting bought from a junk dealer, on a malarial plain.
Squares, fountains and monuments
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Macellum
The forum's covered market, where fish bones in the drain revealed what was sold.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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Near Pompei
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
