Greater Pompeii is born: new displays, a single ticket and free shuttles

Greater Pompeii is born, a widespread park that includes the archaeological areas of Pompeii, Boscoreale, Oplontis and Stabia and the entire surrounding area. A single ticket, valid for three days, integrated visitor routes, free shuttles for visitors, connecting the sites all day long. The Antiquarium of Boscoreale reopens, with a room dedicated to the ongoing excavations in the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, and the villas of Stabia; after restoration of the roofs, the Villa of the Mysteries will have a lighting system, powered by photovoltaic tiles similar to ancient ones.

All sites will be connected with Pompeii Artebus: in fact, the park’s shuttle service will restart from Oct. 14 to ensure full accessibility and cross-cultural awareness of each site. Three minibuses will depart from Pompeii with three different routes. The service is free for Park visitors. The first runs a continuous loop route from Villa dei Misteri to Boscoreale and makes possible a constant connection between the city of Pompeii and one of its most famous Villas, which also has a museum/antiquarium within the site. The second bus provides numerous daily runs to the Villa of Poppea, Oplontis excavations, while the third bus connects Pompeii Archaeological Park with the Villas of Stabia, San Marco, and Arianna.

For a shorter itinerary Pompeii Express, at a cost of 18 euros, will allow visits to the archaeological area within the walls, excluding the suburban villas located along Via delle tombe. But also the Antiquarium, the museum inside the city and the exhibition area of the Palestra grande, which hosts temporary exhibitions. These include a major exhibition in December devoted to The Other Pompeii, that of the humbler classes.

To discover all the sites of Greater Pompeii that need a few more days, a 3-day ticket for 26 euros has been devised that includes Pompeii with the suburban villas route with theAntiquarium in Boscoreale, as well as the Villa of Poppea in Oplontis, and Stabia, with Villa San Marco and Villa Arianna and the Libero d’Orsi Museum at the Reggia di Quisisana in Castellammare di Stabia, which will soon be reopened with its renovated museum layout and reorganization of storage facilities. All this will be done by free shuttle.

In addition, the archaeological park will periodically schedule a series of special visits to ongoing construction sites and exclusive areas of the excavations.

“Outside the walls of Pompeii, there is a heritage that has no equal in the world: the villas of Stabia, Boscoreale, Torre Annunziata, the Villa of the Mysteries and the Villa of Diomede. An invaluable value that with Greater Pompeii becomes an integral part of a single widespread park, a true archaeological-cultural landscape,” said Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel. “The sites in the area are a kind of Pompeii 2 in terms of their potential for research and public enjoyment, but at the same time they tell a complementary aspect with respect to the urban area: the agriculture, the resort, the vineyards, the fields and the districts between Oplontis, Pompeii and Stabia. The shuttle service, included in the visit ticket, is designed to put all these places in communication: just as an airport is one because at any time I can take the shuttle from Terminal 1 to Terminal 4, without studying timetables or buying a special ticket, Greater Pompeii, too, from today can be experienced as one big park, stretching between the sea, Vesuvius and the Lattari Mountains.” “What we are presenting today is part of a broader strategy for the development of the Unesco area, whose buffer zone expansion was recently recognized, and is also meant to be an example of what we can still do by using funding well and working in synergy with other entities and with the coordination of the Ministry, which under the impetus of Minister Sangiuliano pays great attention to the role of cultural heritage for the sustainability and development of territories.”

Greater Pompeii is born: new displays, a single ticket and free shuttles

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