Forum Baths (VII,5,24) These were built after 80 BC, following the same layout as the larger Stabian Baths: on either side of the furnaces are the men’s and women’s sections, according to the sequence apodyterium (dressing room), frigidarium (cold bathing room), tepidarium (warm room), caldarium (hot room). The porticoed palaestra could be entered from Via...Read More

Stabian Baths (VII,2) This is the city’s most ancient bath building (2nd cent. BC), built over a previous facility (4th-3rd century BC) and later restored. East of the porticoed central palaestra are the bathing rooms, divided into women’s and men’s sections: frigidarium (with pool for cold bath), apodyterium (dressing room), tepidarium (warm room), caldarium (hot...Read More

The baths Not all Pompeians had running water in their homes. Thus using the thermal baths was a necessity as well as a custom that manifested a particular conception of free time. People went to the baths not only to take a bath, but also to meet friends, converse, and to seek political favor. The...Read More

Necropolis of Porta Nola East of the road leaving the city through Porta Nola is a burial area with three tombs. Booking the room at B&B Il Fauno.Read More

Necropolis of Porta Vesuvio With the exception, it seems, of Porta Marina, there was a necropolis along every road entering the city. Booking the room at B&B Il Fauno.Read More

Necropolis of Porta Nocera Right outside Porta Nocera is the necropolis, of considerable importance, with its exedra and aedicula tombs. Booking the room at B&B Il Fauno.Read More

For the Romans, death meant contamination and thus obligated the living to carry out rituals of purification and expiation. Moreover, it was thought that depriving a body of proper burial would have negative repercussions on the destiny of the soul of the deceased. Until the first century A.D., the custom was to cremate the dead...Read More

Forum granary (VII,7,29) The produce market (‘forum olitorio’) was built after 62 AD, and may not have been completed (or was not in use). Near B&B Pompei Il Fauno.Read More

Mensa ponderaria (VII,7,31) Near the produce market and built into the east wall of the temple of Apollo, active beginning in the late 2nd cent. Near at B&B Pompei Il Fauno. Book now.Read More

The building, which was the city's main market, dates from the 2nd cent. BC and underwent subsequent renovations: the bases in front of the entrance portico held commemorative statues of illustrious citizens. The interior has a porticoed courtyard with shops: the 12 bases in the center acted as stands for wooden poles that supported a...Read More