Pompeii: Tessera Audio Guide

Stand in front of a 2,000-year-old house and hear exactly what it was — right where you're standing.

Seventy-three stops in Pompeii, told out loud, working entirely offline.

Inside the excavations there is barely any signal and barely any signage. This guide is downloaded before the trip and then needs nothing: no network, no roaming, no queue at the audio guide desk.

WALK WITHOUT DECIDING
Three ready routes, from one hour to three and a half. The time is measured, not guessed: it counts the real walking distance along the streets, the length of every recording, and the time you spend looking. Pick the one that fits the hours you actually have, and the guide leads you from stop to stop and counts down what is left.

WHAT YOU HEAR
The Forum, the House of the Faun, the Lupanar, the Great Theatre, the Villa of the Mysteries. And what came out of the ground in the last two years: the Black Room, the hall of the Dionysian mysteries, the bakery where slaves and donkeys turned the millstones. Guidebooks printed before 2024 do not have these.

NARRATED IN ENGLISH
Every story and the entire app are in English, start to finish.

TRY BEFORE YOU PAY
The introduction and four more stops are free, including the Forum and the Amphitheatre. Listen to them at home, before you decide.

The full guide is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It stays on your phone.

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences; the author and licence are shown under each one. This app is not affiliated with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.