The archaelogical site can be easily reached either from Naples or Sorrento ( approx. 30 Km from Naples or 20 from Sorrento). The guided tour begins with a visit to the forum and its majestic temples. It continues all along the main street flanked by different kind of shops, thermal baths , patrician dwellings embellished with wall-paintings and mosaic floors , as well the striking plaster-casts of human bodies, victims of the tragic eruption of the 79 A.D. In order to see all the area , including some suburban buildings a five hours tour is needed. Combined tour such as Pompeii and vesuvius or Pompeii and Herculaneum or Pompei and the archaelogical museum etc. are also available.