Special evening openings featuring theater, dance, music, and archaeology: tickets are available for purchase from today. Herculaneum Fridays are back: the special evening openings, for their ninth edition, dedicated to the theme of Love and War, transforming the Herculaneum Archaeological Park into an open-air stage amidst the ruins of the ancient city, a UNESCO World…
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF HERCULANEUM presents Fridays of Herculaneum IX edition – Love and War Theater • Dance • Music • Artistic lighting Summer Season 2026 You are cordially invited to OPENING EVENING Thursday, July 2, 2026 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM Herculaneum Archaeological Park – Corso Resina 187 and Via dei Papiri Ercolanesi 19 –…
“The Fridays of Ercolano” and “The Leisures of Ercole” are back: music, theater, dance and performance-lessons in the heart of the ancient city. The Archaeological Park of Herculaneum inaugurates the 2026 summer program with a rich calendar of events that will accompany the public from July to September through cultural experiences capable of combining the…
From June to December 2026, guided visits to one of the best-preserved thermal complexes in the Roman world Guided tours of the Suburban Baths, among the most fascinating and best-preserved buildings of the ancient city, resume at the Herculaneum Archaeological Park. Following the positive response of previous editions, the project returns in 2026, offering an…
EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DAYS 2026 | June 12–14, 2026 “Archaeology in the Making” Starting tomorrow, Friday, June 12, the Herculaneum Archaeological Park opens the European Days of Archaeology (EAD) 2026 with a three-day program of visits, workshops, and scientific meetings. The initiative, promoted by INRAP under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture and coordinated…
“Archaeology in the Making” The Herculaneum Archaeological Park is participating in the 2026 European Days of Archaeology (EEA) with a rich program, an initiative promoted at the European level by INRAP – Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives – under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture and with the patronage of the Council…
“Archaeology in the Making” The Herculaneum Archaeological Park is participating in the 2026 European Days of Archaeology (EEA) with a rich program, an initiative promoted at the European level by INRAP – Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives – under the aegis of the French Ministry of Culture and with the patronage of the Council…
INVITATION TO THE PRESS Villa Sora. Results of the archaeological investigations – 2025–2026 excavation campaign The Archaeological Park of Herculaneum is pleased to invite the press to a study day dedicated to the results of the archaeological investigations conducted at Villa Sora (2025–2026 excavation campaign), scheduled for Friday 12 June…
On May 23, the Boat Pavilion and the Antiquarium will be open from 8:00 PM to midnight, offering a special evening opening with scientific insights into the collections. The evening will also feature a dramatized reading on the life of Hercules and his second labor, the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra, performed by children from…
In its final stages, the eighth edition of Close-up Cantieri, the initiative of the Herculaneum Archaeological Park that takes the public to the places of conservation, exceptionally opening the excavation, restoration, and maintenance areas of the ancient Vesuvian city with the last meetings on May 14 and 21. Un appuntamento ormai atteso e consolidato che,…
