Excavation of the buildings facing on the gulf in this section of Pompeii began in 1958 and was completed in the late Seventies, with the important discovery of rooms 31 and 32 in the House of the Golden Bracelet. This was the name given the house when the remains of a woman wearing a lovely golden bracelet were found here in 1974.
This house is built in three descending tiers, utilizing as a support the city walls and the slope of the hillside. The first level has an entrance on Via Consolare leading to a Tuscan atrium with cubicles and reception rooms opening off it. On the level below are a thermal area and more reception rooms. The lowest level is distinguished by the triclinium-nymphaeum, no. 31, and by room no. 32, opening onto a garden with a fountain at the center.
