HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco visited the archaeological site of Pompeii today accompanied bythe Director of the Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel. The visit began at the Amphitheatre entrance and included the Praedia of Giulia Felice, a largecomplex laid out as an “urban villa” characterised by large green spaces and a private bath complex, Via dell’Abbondanza, from where they reached the Insula ofthe C …Read more

Being a woman: a statement, but also a question to which there are different answers depending on the moment and the context, even in ancient Pompeii. The discovery of the living conditions of women and girls, the numerous aspects of everyday life and the position they occupied in the house and Roman society, and even more so in a Campanian city such as Pompeii, is the thread running through the e …Read more

14 live events with international and Italian artists ranging from classical music to pop  From 27 June to 5 August 2025, the season of musical events at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii kicks off with fourteen live concerts in the amphitheatre featuring famous artists from Italy and abroad. It opens with two concerts by the tenor Andrea Bocelli, and continues in late July with the concert by th …Read more

Life-size depiction of a couple:  a man and a woman The restoration currently underway will be on display at the exhibition “Essere donna nell’antica Pompei” (Being a woman in ancient Pompeii) which will open on 16 April 2025   A funerary relief showing the almost life-size figures of a couple – a man and a woman – from a tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno has been discovered. It came to l …Read more

AN EXTREMELY RARE “MEGALOGRAPHY” OF THE 1ST CENTURY BC, LIKE THE FAMOUS VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES Over 100 years since the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a large new fresco casts light on the Dionysiac mysteries in the classical world. An almost life-size frieze, known as a “megalography” (from the Greek term for "large painting"- a cycle of paintings with large-scale figures) has been unea …Read more

The Park’s director Gabriel Zuchtriegel stated:”Itis an example of how the Roman domusacted as the setting for artistic and cultural shows that the owner staged to gain votes or win the favour of his guests” A large bath-complex inside a private domus, adjoining a banqueting room, has been unearthed during the excavations currently being carried out in insula 10 ofRegio IXin Pompeii. The complex i …Read more