Together with the Villa d’Este and Hadrian’s Villa in the city of Tivoli, Pompeii is probably the most popular day trip from Rome.
Pompeii is located just south of the city of Naples in the Campania region of Italy and is famous because its ruins after it had been submerged under ashes and lava during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
This site is about Rome and the Lazio region and not about Campania, so we will just tell you how to get there. For information about the ruins of Pompeii itself we refer to the Wikipedia article.
The easiest way to reach Pompeii is to take the train to Naples and then the so-called Circumvesuviano train to Pompeii itself. The trip will take between 1 and a half and 3 and a half hours, depending on the kind of train you take and it will cost you between 12 and almost 50 Euros.
The train schedule can be found on the Trenitalia website, which is rather user-unfriendly and does not give you all possible options straightaway, so after the first search result comes up make sure to click on “tutte le soluzioni“.
