Pompeii and the treasures of the Naples Archaeological Museums are inextricably linked; and so we strongly recommend that visitors pair the two in a single-day excursion. Ours begins at the train station in Naples where our car and driver, along with one of our docents (usually a Ph.d-level archaeologist or historian) will meet the group and head out to Pompeii by minivan. We spend about 2.5 hours on-site, discussing the history of the city and the excavations. We will try to depart the site by 1 pm and transfer to Naples (by car) where we will have lunch in a small, non-touristy restaurant in the city center, followed by a short (one-hour) walking tour/stroll through the center, poking our head into a few churches and discussing the history of the city.
We finish our tour of Naples with a visit to the extraordinary collection of Roman artifacts in the Archeological Museum of Naples, where we will find a wealth of the pottery, sculpture, and architectural materials taken from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other ancient cities on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius. Many consider the Naples Archaeological Museum to be one of the most important museums in all of Europe; certainly it is an invaluable component to a visit to Pompeii, providing a counterpoint to everything we see there. We will return to Rome by train in the evening.
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