Costa del Vesuvio

The site of Oplontis is in the middle of the modern town of Torre Annunziata.
The name Oplontis is only known to us from the PeutingerianaTabula , a 13th century copy of an ancient map showing the road network in Italy at the time of the Roman Empire. On the map the toponym Oplontis refers to some buildings between Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This name was given to a series of archaeological finds which in actual fact stood on the outskirts of Pompeii: a residential villa, known as the 'Villa of Poppea'; a rustic villa, attributed to L. Crassius Tertius, in which were found the bodies of numerous victims of the eruption and also a large hoard of gold and silver coins, as well as valuable gold jewellery, and a bathing establishment , nearby the Oncino, beneath what is now the Terme Nunziante, attributed by the archaeologist A. Maiuri to the consul Marcus Crassus Frugi.
The main monument, and the only one open to the public, is the Villa of Poppea, inserted in the “Patrimony of Humanity” of the UNESCO: it is a grand residence dating from the middle of the 1st century BC. It had been enlarged during Imperial times and was undergoing restoration work at the time of the eruption. There are various grounds for attributing it to Poppaea Sabina, the Emperor Nero's second wife, and it was undoubtedly part of the estates of the Imperial family.

Phone: 0818621755
WebSite: http://www.pompeiisites.org
Opening hours:
April October 8:30 to 19:30 last admission 18.00
November March 8:30 to 17:30 last admission 15.30

Weekly closing: None

Ticket:
€ 5.50 With access to three sites (Oplonti Stabia Boscoreale) - valid for 1 day reduced € 2.75 (*)
Posted in cumulavivo ticket with access to 5 sites (Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplonti Stabia Boscoreale) valid for three days: full 20 Euros, reduced 10 EUR.

Free: for EU citizens under 18 or over 65
(*) Reduced: for EU citizens aged between 18 and 25 years of age and for school teachers of the European Union, with permanent contracts.