Its owner undoubtedly lived under Nero and loved the theatre... although the small gilded glass and gold Cupids have sadly deteriorated, the whole ensemble with a peristyle with one wing raised like a stage, is well preserved. Between the peristyle a..

At the end of the Via di Mercurio, this tower, one of the square towers which mark out the walls of the town, has a very attractive view over all the excavations at Pompeii.

This was an official establishment supplying the needs of the municipality. Very explicit paintings depict the specialties of the employees there for the needs of the clients. As for the clients, they also left their comments on the quality of the se..

This house near the Temple of Isis, has a stucco covered facade in imitation of stone covering in the 1st Pompeiian style (characterised, you will recall, by paintings without a subject in imitation, by means of reliefs, of a marble covering) and an ..

The peristyle decorated with Mercury, accompanied by a peacock, snakes and foliage leads into a cryptoportico, a large underground corridor with an attractive cradle roof illuminated by small windows. A cave? Definitely not! This is a place for exerc..

There was also voting in Pompeii, and when there are votes, there are electoral campaigns; the inscriptions on the facade are candidates' electoral slogans. At the end of the peristyle, notice the multi-coloured fresco in imitation of a stone wall.

This house owes its name to a mosaic (in one of the rooms opening onto the peristyle) depicting a labyrinth with Theseus killing the Minotaur.

This fountain in the Egyptian style is shaped as a niche, and decorated with mosaics and fragments of multi-coloured glass. It is the main feature of this large house.