Your free audio walking tour of Pompeii, custom-built around what you actually want to see. Tell us a story, theme, or vibe and your tour is ready in 30 seconds. Works offline inside the Park, 9 voiced languages, 30 free minutes on signup.
Forum, Lupanar, Stabian Baths, House of the Faun, Amphitheatre. Downhill the whole way.
Bakeries with carbonised loaves, fast-food bars, the laundries, the public latrines.
Lupanar, Suburban Baths, the wall scribbles. The Pompeii they don't tell schoolchildren about.
A chronological walk - 24 hours, hour by hour. Ends at the Garden of the Fugitives.
Villa of the Mysteries, House of the Faun, House of the Tragic Poet, Menander. All under cover.
The combined-ticket day. Herculaneum in the morning, Pompeii after lunch.
An indoor stop every 20 minutes - Baths, House of the Faun, Suburban Baths, museum.
House of the Vettii (re-opened 2023), Menander, Golden Cupids, Octavius Quartio.
Plaster casts, the gladiators' barracks, the Amphitheatre arena, the bakery with the loaves.
Last-entry route. Forum to Amphitheatre, golden light, the cruise groups long gone.
Type a theme, an angle, a question - we'll build the walk in 30 seconds.
Local knowledge
The things you only learn after you've walked it.
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Pompeii slopes east-to-west. Entering at Porta Marina (the main gate from the train) and exiting at the Amphitheatre means you walk downhill all day. Reverse it and you're climbing 35 metres in the afternoon sun. Most tour buses get this wrong.
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The site is 66 hectares. Two hours covers the Forum and the Lupanar. Four hours is the realistic minimum to add the Theatre, the Baths, House of the Faun, and the Amphitheatre. Six hours adds Villa of the Mysteries, the necropolis, and lunch outside the gate.
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Plan indoor stops every 20 minutes - the Baths, the bigger houses, the Antiquarium museum. Bring 2 litres of water per person, sunscreen, a hat. July-August midday is unwise; April-May and October are the right months.
04
The Park rotates which houses are open day-to-day to manage conservation. Don't be surprised if a "must-see" is shut. Check the Park's website the morning of for the day's open list, or ask iWander - the AI knows the current rota.
05
The Park's café is unremarkable. Walk five minutes to Via Roma in modern Pompei for proper pizza fritta and sfogliatelle. President (Michelin-starred, surprisingly affordable lunch). Or take the Circumvesuviana one stop to Torre Annunziata for the real thing.
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Giuseppe Fiorelli's 1860s technique - inject plaster into the body-shaped cavities in the ash. The casts contain the actual skeletons of the people who died. Garden of the Fugitives is the largest grouping. Treat them as graves; it's the right impulse.
How it works
Three things, in 30 seconds.
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Any angle, theme, or vibe. "Live like a Roman", "Frescoes only", "Pompeii in two hours". iWander writes you the walk in 30 seconds.
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Vesuvius, the bread that didn't make it out of the oven, the gladiator's last fight, the fresco that scandalised the Bourbon court. Stories whispered in your ear, room by room.
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What does this graffito say? Why are the roads so high? Is that a real body? Point your camera, ask out loud, or type. Your guide answers in seconds.
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How to visit
Tickets, timings, transport - the practical stuff most pages bury.
TICKETS
Adult full price €22 (2026). Combined Pompeii + Herculaneum + Oplontis + Boscoreale ticket is €32 and valid 3 days - buy it if you're staying more than one day in the area. EU 18-25: €2. Under 18: free. First Sunday of the month (Oct-Mar) is free but unbearable; skip.
HOURS
Last entry is 90 minutes before closing - 17:30 in summer, 15:30 in winter. Open every day except 25 December and 1 January. Houses inside the site close 30 minutes before the Park does. Arrive at 09:00 sharp or after 14:00 to dodge the cruise wave.
GETTING THERE
The cheapest, most reliable route. Naples Garibaldi → Pompei Scavi Villa dei Misteri (€3.20, 35 min). Trains every 30 minutes. Don't get off at "Pompei" - that's the modern town, 1.5 km from the entrance. From Rome: high-speed to Naples (1hr 10), then the Circumvesuviana.
LUGGAGE
Backpacks over 30×30×15 cm are not allowed inside the site. Free locker deposit at the Porta Marina entrance, return your token when you leave. The Esedra entrance also has lockers. Big cases are not accepted at either - leave them at your hotel or the Naples station.
ACCESSIBILITY
Most of the site is uneven cobble and there are stepped thresholds in many houses. The marked "Pompeii Per Tutti" route covers the Forum, Macellum, Lupanar, Stabian Baths, House of the Vettii, Theatre, House of Menander - about 3 km, fully accessible. Map free at the entrance.
SAVE TIME
July-October queues at Porta Marina hit 60 minutes by 11:00. Book the timed-entry ticket on the Park's own site (pompeiisites.org) - €1.50 booking fee, no queue, pick your half-hour slot. Third-party resellers charge €10 markup for the same ticket; don't.
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Updated 18 May 2026 by the iWander local team · Curated for accuracy