Castellammare di Stabia Trip Overview
Stabiae is one of the four villages covered by the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD along with Pompeii Herculaneum and Oplontis. It is located near the modern Castellammare di Stabia, in an area known as Varano and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii.
The site was declared an archaeological protected area in 1957, and by 1962 many of the ruins had been again uncovered.
It is here that the Roman Pliny the Elder landed with a boat on the day of the eruption in order to rescue his friends living in town.
The excavations returned two celebrated Roman villas, Villa San Marco and Villa Arianna, with frescoes, statues, sculptures, mosaics similar to those already found in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Castellammare di Stabia, Italy
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy
Stabiae is one of the four villages covered by the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD along with Pompeii Herculaneum and Oplontis. It is located near the modern Castellammare di Stabia, in an area known as Varano and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii.
The site was declared an archaeological protected area in 1957, and by 1962 many of the ruins had been again uncovered.
It is here that the Roman Pliny the Elder landed with a boat on the day of the eruption in order to rescue his friends living in town.
The excavations returned two celebrated Roman villas, Villa San Marco and Villa Arianna, with frescoes, statues, sculptures, mosaics similar to those already found in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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Stop At: Antiche terme di Stabia, Via benedetto brin, Castellammare Di Stabia Italy
Stabiae was an ancient Roman town near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia which became famous for the magnificent Roman villas found there in recent times.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Villa Arianna, Passeggiata Archeologica 2, 80053 Castellammare Di Stabia Italy
Visit Villa Arianna whose features are a large garden with patio, several decorated panoramic rooms, and an amazing thermal area
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Villa San Marco, Passeggiata Archeologica 11, 80053 Castellammare Di Stabia Italy
Explore a perfectly preserved Villa, where everything is still intact: the entrance atrium, the kitchens, the porched garden with a long swimming pool, various frescoed rooms and thermal quarter in which the extraordinary caldarium (sauna) is well preserved with all the structures used for heating
Duration: 1 hour
