House of the Vettii

This luxurious patrician villa is a good example of the taste of the last years of Pompeii. It belonged to two rich noblemen, Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva, and had recently been renovated when the vulcano erupted.

It is beutifully preserved. You can walk around inside and see the atrium with the water bassin and the iron-clad safes, the bedrooms, the walled garden and all the other rooms and areas.

In almost every room in the house are very well preserved murals, depicting all kinds of things. You can find different religious scenes, like children making sacrifices to deieties; scenes from myths and legends, like Heracles strangling the snakes Hera sent to him; architectonic perspectives and panels, imitation windows and ridges; and various oddities, like the love making couple and the Priapus weighing his enormous penis.