The house, which dates back to the middle of the first century. A.D., owes its name to the beautiful mosaic with a wounded bear placed at the entrance, which is flanked by the inscription of welcome "HAVE" with which the owner welcomed his guests.
It was reopened to the public after a major restoration of the mosaics, floors and frescoes completed in 2016 and that allows us to admire it again in the splendor of its colors. In fact, the house offers some of the finest examples of painting from the mid-1st century A.D., as you can see in the triclinium with the little squares depicting Danae with the little Perseus and the myth of Narcissus.

At the bottom of the small courtyard, in the middle of a large fresco depicting a garden with a wild boar and a wolf on the sides of a tree, there is a colorful mosaic fountain showing Venus lying inside a shell and below Neptune , the god of the sea, in the middle of a seabed full of fishes of all kinds.

Excavation date: 1865-1868.