Lupa in Latin means prostitute, and this is the best organized of Pompeii's many brothels, the only one designed specifically for this purpose: the others were simply single rooms, or part of the top floor of a shop.Read More

Buburban Baths This privately owned facility (1st cent. BC – 1st cent. AD) is built on an artificial terrace facing the sea, just outside the walls: eminent due to its scenic position, it was repeatedly pillaged over the centuries. On the ground floor are the sumptuously decorated bathing rooms, including the warm indoor pool, and...Read More

Central Baths (IX,4,5-18) The economic-social axis of Pompeii moves towards Via di Stabia: thus it is in this area that a new bath complex was designed, which replaced an entire block of the 9th region and which, begun after 62 AD, was never completed. Note that no separate sections are provided for men and women....Read More

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