Herculaneum Private Tour (skip-the-line admission included)｜Italy

Pompeii was not the only city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius back in 79 A.D.. A few miles away, right on the coastline, there was another city: Herculaneum. That one town, just like Pompeii, was at the same time both destroyed and preserved by the disaster. Pyroclastic flows covered Herculaneum with a literal mountain of scalding ashes, burying the remains of the antique city under 60 feet of cinder.

Today, almost 2000 years later, the charm of Herculaneum is still intact. The town was a residential area for the wealthy: smaller but richer than Pompeii. Traces of the affluence of the ancient Herculaneum are still visibile in the original style and in the elegant decorations of the private houses.

Herculaneum differentiates itself from Pompeii also when it comes to the state of the preservation: the two cities were destroyed by the same eruption but the effects on them were not alike.

Let us show you the antique gem of the Gulf of Naples in a walking tour full of history.