The House of Julia Felix

An enormous house owned by Julia Felix, who rents out dozens of private rooms to respectable Citizens.

---
This house was excavated from the ruins in the 18th century and brought completely to light in the years 1952 - 1953. There is a big and elegant garden with a portico supported by little marble pillars. At the center there is a summer dining-room (triclinium) with marble beds and a fountain with a waterfall. A second entrance leads into the bathroom (balneum).

There is a graffitied announcement on the balneum (bathroom) door stating that its use could be rented with part of the house: "Julia Felix, daughter of Spurius, rents to respectable people an elegant bathroom worthy of Venus, a workshop with apartment on the upper floor and mezzanine from the first of August. The lease will expire in five years."

A very large and lavish domus, the house of Julia Felix is one of the ONLY houses in all of Pompeii to contain a private bath. That's right! All respectable citizens who rent rooms and apartments within this expansive domus do not have to make a trip to the public bath houses

For more info on this historic Pompeii home, click HERE!