Pompeii Herculaneum
Our minibus leaves you in Sorrento Train Station front door every morning at 8.00am, 9.00am, 10,00am and 11.00am where you can take the CIRCUMVESUVIANA train and reach Pompeii in 35 min and Herculaneum in 50min.
In 79AD, the Roman city of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed in the fury of the lava of Vesuvius. It was only in 1738, that the ruins resurfaced under the light of the sun, thanks to the excavations undertaken by King Charles of Bourbon.
A mass of fiery lapilli and rain of ashes, covered men, houses and temples under a layer of 4 to 5 metres, conserving until today, a perfect testimony of Roman life over 2000 years ago.
During the excursion to Pompeii, you can admire the Amphitheatre and Via dell’Abbondanza, one of the most famous streets of the ancient Roman city.
The evocative ruins include houses and craft shops, that permit you to imagine the rhythm and the habits of life at the time and a view of the Orto dei Fuggitivi (Garden of the Fugitives), where you can visit the remains of a group of peasants, who were working the land.
Herculaneum, diverse from Pompeii was submerged in mud and ash, which penetrated into every home, transforming it all into a compact and hard layer.
These circumstances have rendered conservation of the site in a manner better than the ruins of Pompeii. In particular, perishable materials such as wood and papyrus were found partially intact to the interior of a luxurious villa, which is still partly covered.
Contained within this dwelling were 1826 rolls of papyrus, all containing Greek texts. The villas you may visit in the archeological site of Herculaneum are numerous. A surreal find is a boat with its helmsman in which there is also a horse.
