Wear your Augmented Reality smart glasses and enjoy a unique, innovative, and immersive walking tour at the archaeological site of Herculaneum. Travel back to 79 AC and see what Herculaneum's squares and houses looked like before being destroyed in a volcanic eruption.
Meet your Tour Assistant at Herculaneum main entrance and get kitted out with your glasses before listening to a quick introduction to how to use them. Then, begin your tour guided by your Tour Assistant which has been designed by an archaeologist team to show you what life was like in Herculaneum before the eruption.
The software of the glasses creates holograms that overlap the existing ruins, showing what the most significant temples, houses, and buildings originally looked like. Cast yourself into the bygone age of ancient life in Herculaneum, walking through the city to feel like a Roman.
Walk among the ruins with your small group, and remember that our tour is suitable for people of all ages!"
Posted By : stuart_b
The VR is simple but effective. It added a nice dimension to the tour.
Our guide was knowledgeable and very personable.
It is not a big site and this tour seemed to cover all the basics with an interesting twist.
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Posted On : 2024-05-28 10:20:10 
Posted By : Shawn_R
Overall, this was a great experience. We had a wonderful tour guide, who was very knowledgeable and friendly.
Using 3D technology to see rendering of the past was helpful, although the headset around your neck for the duration of the tour is a bit tiring.
All that said, we would do this same tour again. Thank you so much!
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Posted On : 2024-05-09 01:52:16
Posted By : tom_g
The glasses are barely useful and the recorded commentary with them is not only brief and boring but only available at a few fixed points where the glasses are activated.
The tour guide merely shuffles the group from one place to another before telling you to turn the glasses on again.
This means that you are whisked past 99% of the site without a moment to appreciate or learn anything at all.
After two stops this was obvious, so we handed the glasses back and started the tour again having completely wasted our time spent with the pleasant but useless guide.
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Posted On : 2024-05-03 22:36:40
Posted By : Mark_R
It was great being able to compare Herculaneum and Pompeii and see all the important places with a local, knowledgeable guide was spectacular.
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Posted On : 2023-12-04 13:42:32
Posted By : ALESSANDRA_c
Thanks to Chiara ,that is a lovely young woman, we could walk throug the Ercolano Ruins discovering by the 3d glasses what it should have look like , its colours, daily life , architecture. Ercolano is a smaller but different site from Pompei but also worthing a visit to understand how the eruption affected differently . Thanks Chiara
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Posted On : 2023-11-20 05:38:34
Posted By : Tim H
Our guide was excellent, very knowledgeable about the site and daily life of its inhabitants. The 3D technology was amazing for helping visualize the site as it was at its glory.
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Posted On : 2023-10-22 12:35:52 
Posted By : MrMcCoatup
Herculaneum is a must see when visiting Naples; for us, the 3D tour and guide was the right choice. Chiara our guide was knowledgeable, bubbly and enthusiastic. In combination with the 3D glasses, Chiara brought Herculaneum to life for us. We overhead other tourists without guides theorising about the function and purpose of rooms and structures and missing by a mile; pay for a guide is our advice, visit in the morning when it is quieter and temperature is less hot and go for the 3D experience which will help to visualise various houses and streets as they were when Herculaneum was a bustling and thriving town.
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Posted On : 2023-09-12 04:45:44
Posted By : AlbertoeDeianira
Unique and particular experience, enriched by the knowledge and friendliness of our guide Roberta. Greetings from Alberto and Deianira from Cavalleggeri
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Posted On : 2023-08-24 03:36:07
Posted By : James O
Having visited Pompeii a few years ago, I have wanted to visit Ercolaneo Scavi which did during my three week stay in Rome. A former parishioner whom I baptized and I traveled by train to Naples and then on the local to Ercolaneo Scavi to see ancient Herculaneum. The guide was excellent and her knowledge of the site was remarkable. We really enjoyed our visit. I will return!
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Posted On : 2023-06-09 23:56:15
Posted By : D9110QZadams
After visiting Pompeii we decided to book this.
Whilst Herculanium is amazing and well worth your time, don't bother with this.
We were escorted by a guide who at certain points just advised us to put glasses on and press a button for an audio presentation.
The tech didn't perform that well as it was raining. Would have much preferred the guide to inform us.
Either just pay to get into the ruins or go with a professional guide,
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Posted On : 2023-05-17 01:37:48
