Capri tour

When the house and shop or office were in the same space, the dwelling consisted of some rooms behind the shop retrobottega or a mezzanine above the shop pergula reached by means of a wooden stairway. This abitare in pergulis was considered a particularly humble dwelling. The walls were rough or covered in coarse stuccowork, and the floors simply beaten or covered in cocciopesto. In general ali types of houses were found together in ali the various quarters, as is naturai in a commercial and residential city. Pompeii offers us, therefore, the unique possibility of studying private houses of ali different types and their historical and social developments during a span of more than four centuries. In the Samnite Age fourth century B.C., the house had a single atrium with no impluvium pool used for collecti’ng rain-water with other rooms surrounding it. The next period before the Social Wars Second century B.C., second Samnite Age was very important. It was during this time that the Samnites were influenced by the arrivai of the Hellenes at the nearby port of Pozzuoli and began to build really elegant and imposing private houses.