The self-guided walking tour, specially designed to optimize travel and time, about 2.5 km in length, will take you through the 10 must-see attractions of Pompeii's ruins. So the visit to the ruins starts from the entrance at Piazza Anfiteatro.

Probably among the oldest and best preserved in the world, Pompeii's ancient amphitheater, dating from around 70 B.C., was the structure intended for sporting events and especially gladiator fights. The spectator stands, also known as cavea, with a capacity of about 20,000 spectators were divided into three sectors: the first cavea (i.e., the first row) was reserved for the most influential citizens, the middle for the middle class, and the summa, higher up, for the rest of the people. In 59 AD there was a riot in the amphitheater, in which spectators from Pompeii and the nearby city of Nocera faced each other, so much so that Emperor Nero banned the games in Pompeii for 10 years.

The Garden of the Fugitives is an old quarter of the ancient city of Pompeii, converted to a vineyard in the last years of the city's life before the dreaded volcanic eruption of 79 AD. The present name is a tribute to the discovery of the bodies of 13 victims, which were found in escape positions toward Porta Nocera before they were crystallized by ash and lapilli. The casts were surveyed only recently, during the 1961-62 and 1973-74 excavations, using the plaster casting technique.

The House of Menander takes its name from a fresco by the poet Manander and is one of the richest and most opulent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration, and content, covering a large area of about 1,800 square meters. Most interesting are the frescoes depicting the Trojan War, the death of Laocoon, Cassandra and Odysseus: Cassandra trying to persuade the Trojans not to bring the wooden horse through the city walls.

Pompeii's two theaters are located in the same area of the ancient city. The Teatro Grande is an open-air amphitheater in which Greco-Roman plays were performed, while the smaller Odeion was used for poetry and musical performances, which required a smaller, covered space for better acoustics.

The Forum “thermae” also called the Baths of Fortune or the Stabian Baths were a Roman-era spa complex restricted to the wealthiest people and were a favorite pastime of the Romans. The baths were divided into two sections: the women's and men's, with separate entrances. Each contained a series of rooms having different functions: apodyterium, frigidarium, tedidarium, calidarium.

The Lupanar is one of the most famous and characteristic places in the entire archaeological site of Pompeii despite being located in a suburban area. It is the ancient brothel of the city, divided on two floors with 5 small rooms on the ground floor and 5 on the upper floor. The interior of each room consists of a masonry bed on which mats or mattresses were placed. On the access vaults of each alcove are several paintings with erotic subjects that probably show the type of service offered by the prostitute staying there.

The forum of Pompeii is basically the place that most of all will give you an incredible visual impact on the ancient city of Pompeii. In fact, here you can admire the large square with the honorary arches, the buildings of public administration, the basilica, the macellum, the mensa ponderaria, the temples of Apollo and Jupiter, and much more. In the forum the main civil, religious and commercial functions were held, and just as in the other cities of the Roman Empire, in Pompeii it was reserved only for pedestrians and therefore access to chariots was forbidden.

The House of the Faun is one of the largest and most spectacular houses in Pompeii: it covers about 3,000 square meters with one area for the owners and another for servants and is a great example of how a house would have been built architecturally. It owes its name to a bronze statue, depicting a satyr, located in the impluvium (a basin designed to collect rainwater). The domus is embellished with statues, frescoes, and spectacular mosaics, including the very famous mosaic depicting a victory of Alexander the Great against Darius and the Persians (probably the Battle of Issus), now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Villa of the Mysteries is one of the most mysterious and fascinating domus of the archaeological site, dating back to the 1st century B.C., it was probably owned by the Istacidii family, among the most influential in Augustan-era Pompeii.