Tours
The highest accuracy in the preparation of the itineraries, the professional experience and the passion of the team members make the guided tours suitable for everyone and ideal for a particularly curious and demanding audience.
The excursions are fully adaptable to different needs and include the most important sites in Campania such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, Caserta, Paestum and the amazing Campi Flegrei. In Naples, the offer includes more than twenty itineraries. Routes to discover the city center as well as the museums with many interesting art treasures.
Furthermore, through careful selection, Archeologia a Napoli offers its visitors a constantly updated overview of the cultural events and exhibitions of the city of Naples, increasingly more closely connected with the international cultural offer.
A unique city, characterised by the multitude of cultures that over the course of three millenia have made it their home, leaving traces of their passage and moulding it into a complex metropolis, eclectic and surprising. Behind every corner hides a thousand year old story, a remarkable event, an unresolved mystery. Its charm between beauty and neglect drove Goethe to remark that Naples was “a haven inhabited by devils”
The extraordinary remains of the ancient Herculaneum are no less than an open door to a precise moment of the past. They show the Roman civilization with such abundance of details and degree of preservation of the organic materials as to be considered unparalleled throughout the world.
The grandiose Pausilypon belonged to the rich and ruthless Roman equestrian P. Vedio who bequeathed it to the Emperor Augustus. Breathtaking views, a theatre, an Odeon, pools, roof gardens and pavilions overlooking the sea would present themselves to the eyes of the Emperor’s guests upon exiting the aphotic Seiano’s Cave, leaving them bedazzled by the majestic spectacle of the residence.
The cities buried by the terrifying volcanic eruption of 79 AD are the most precious source of insight into the daily life of the ancient Roman peoples. Pompeii covers an area of approximately 66 hectares and to visit means to roam the streets, access the shops and houses, the spas and theatres – a complete immersion into an ancient city.
This Roman Villa covers a built up area of at least 3,650 square meters and it is made up of two distinct cores; one, dating back to the 1st century BC, descends from the “Atrium house” style and is adorned with beautiful paintings in the “architectonic style” (second style), the other, of the Nero period, centred around the pool (“natatio”).
Discover the Phlegraean Fields thanks to the guided tours of Archeology in Napoli; you will be guided by a professional archaeologist who will lead you among the places of myth, through the history of a land in which the deepest roots of Western civilization lie, where history, landscape and myth blend together, where every product, every glimpse, every stone tell of a great past, of coexistence with a nature as generous as it is risky, of warriors, emperors, rich aristocrats, poets, writers, entrepreneurs, industrious artisans, loves, crimes and great banquets.
Museums
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples exhibits a unique collection of frescos, mosaics, sculptures, gold and silver objects as well as commonly used objects collected from the local region. Also several collections, including the Collezione Farnese.
The Archaeological Museum of Campi Flegrei, situated in the Aragonese castle of Baia, recently upgraded to 47 rooms, has artefacts from the area starting in the prehistoric period and spanning up to the Roman era.
A day of immersion in the past, to discover life of the cities buried by the Vesuvius in the 79.
Combining the visit of the two ancient cities you can have a complete sight on the Roman society of the Bay of Naples.
The extension of Pompeii, a city of 66 hectares (163 acres), will let you to get lost in the past walking along the narrow streets and crowded main streets, visiting the shops, factories and especially the houses, which are the mirror of a society unexpectedly complex and varied.
Thanks to the fascinating casts of the victims (the famous bodies of Pompeii), who photograph the last moments of life of the citizens of Pompeii, you will have the perception of the tragedy that struck the population who lived in the shadow of Vesuvius.
Herculaneum, small and opulent town overlooking the gulf - thanks to the incredible preservation of materials, such as wood, cloth, papyrus- you can perceive with exceptional level of detail the appearance of an ancient Roman city, that comes to life thanks to the stories told by the extraordinary epigraphic documentation that, thanks to the huge amount of public inscriptions, wooden tablets, papyri, is a unique source of information for the study of antiquity.
The excursion includes 3 hours of visit to Pompeii, following an itinerary that touches all aspects of daily life, focusing on the houses, characterized by an incredible state of conservation of the decorations (mosaics and paintings).
After a lunch break of 1 hour, you will visit the ancient Herculaneum (about 2 hours), where the tour will touch the entire Archaeological Park selecting the most characteristic examples, the exhibition area of the boat and the Antiquarium.
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