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Itinerary Includes:
• International round-trip airfare • Hotel for 2 nights in Naples • Rent a car for 6 days • Hotel for 1 night in Amalfi • Hotel for 2 nights in Sorrento • Hotel for 1 night in Naples • Daily breakfast (if stated in hotel description) • Hotel taxes
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Visit Naples, Pompeii, Amalfi, Capri and Sorrento.
Following is our suggested itinerary, please note that you may extend the number of nights in each city, as well as select the hotel of your choice and choose from different sightseeing tours.
Day 1: USA - Naples
After your overnight transatlantic flight from the United States and passing
through customs, you will head to your selected hotel in Naples. This bustling
capital of the Campania region has a population of over a million. After arrival
at the hotel selected and check in, you will have time to get acquainted with
the city, renowned for the open happy character of its inhabitants and their
apparently chaotic manner of driving. Truly a spectacle for the senses. You
will want to take a sunset stroll about its animated streets and savor a pizza,
a dish created in this city in the 18th century in one its famous restaurants.
Overnight stay.
Day 2: Naples - Pompeii
- Ercolano - Naples
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel and pick up your rent a car to begin your journey.
The ruins of Pompeii are scarcely 25 miles from Naples. Certainly, this has
to be one of the most emotive sites for lovers of the Antiquity. In few places
has the atmosphere and ambience of daily life during the Roman epoch been so
vibrantly captured. A visit to Pompeii is a trip back to that moment in the
year 79 A.D. when the city was frozen in time. Until the 18th century the city
was buried and hidden from view, but the excavations begun under the auspices
of the Bourbon rulers revealed to the world not only the incredible beauty
of the city but profoundly altered our vision of Antiquity. The Forum, the
Amphitheater, and the official brothel (not in current use) are only a few
of the interesting sites to be visited. Pompeii invites the imagination to
wander as one strolls its narrow, high sidewalks: to wonder what its inhabitants
were like, how was their daily life, and, of course, what it must have been
like to live that critical final hour. After your visit to Pompeii, you will
drive 10 kilometers Ercolano, so named for the belief that its founding father
was the mythical Hercules. This small fishing port and village never acquired
the splendor or importance of neighboring Pompeii. But its magnificent and
lovely situation on the Bay of Naples gave it a certain name among the rich
families of Rome, with the result that many wealthy Roman patriarchs build
sumptuous villas there. It suffered from the devastating Vesuvius eruption,
but unlike Pompeii, which was covered by lava, it was buried in ashes, which
allowed for a better conservation of wooden structures. For its reduced size
and the minor presence of visitors, Ercolano emanates a special magic that
allows one to sense what daily life must have been like in a small Imperial
Roman provincial village. Return to Naples. Overnight stay.
Day 3: Naples - Paestum
- Amalfi (Amalfitana Coast)
Breakfast. Less than sixty miles by 4-lane highway to the south in the direction
of Regio Calabria, you will come upon one of the greatest archeological sites
of all Italy, Paestum. You will need more than two hours to visit fully this
site, located in the heart of the Campania region. As with the remains visited
in the last few days, this colony of ancient Greece, which was founded in 600
BC under the name of Poseidonia, was unearthed under the auspices of the Bourbon
leaders during the 18th century. It was converted into a Roman colony in 273
BC, and declined, as so many others did towards the end of the Empire with its
inhabitants castigated by malaria. The Neptune Temple, which despite its name
is dedicated to Zeus or Apollo, was built during the mid 5th century BC in a
harmonious Doric style. In front of the temple is a building called the Basilica,
which in reality is a 6th century BC temple dedicated to Hera, sister and bride
of Zeus. Close by is the Forum, which has the other great attraction of the
site on its other side, the temple of Ceres, also from the 6th century, and
which was erected in honor to Athena. After visiting this interesting site,
you will drive north towards Salerno, with a detour towards one of the most
beautiful spots on the European continent, the Amalfi Coast. After driving along
the winding coastal highway, you will arrive at the unofficial capital of this
tourist enclave, Amalfi. After checking into the hotel selected, you can stroll
the steep streets of this magical city, capital of the ancient Italian Republic,
founded in the year 840, and where the amalfi tables, the world's oldest
maritime code, were created. Overnight stay in Amalfi.
Day 4: Amalfi - Positano
- Sorrento
Breakfast. Today you will have the whole day to recuperate forces in this lovely
region. You can head directly to nearby Sorrento, and take one of the frequent
ferries to the Island of Capri, or leisurely drive the coast to admire and enjoy
its wild and unusual beauty. Not far from Amalfi is the Emerald Grotto, a marine
cave famous for the tones that the indirect sunlight produces in its waters.
A bit further on, you can stop at the village of Vettica Maggiore to contemplate
the spectacular vistas of the sea. A visit to Positano, a quiet fishing village
that has seduced some of the most famous names of the 20th century, such as
Picasso, Nureyev, Paul Klee and Steinbeck, is obligatory. Nureyev was so enamored
of the place that he bought the neighboring island of Li Galli. You will shortly
arrive in Sorrento, the largest city of the region and one of the most important
tourist enclaves in Italy. After checking into the hotel selected, you can stroll
its animated streets and visit some of the city's gardens from which you
can view the famous Gulf of Capri. Overnight stay.
Day 5: Sorrento - Hydrofoil to Capri - Sorrento
Breakfast. Today, why not catch an early morning hydrofoil to Capri? (We do
not provide this service, but you may obtain it directly in Sorrento). A
dramatic island soaring upward from the sea, with sweeping views, whitewashed
homes and villas, fragrant lemon trees, narrow winding lanes, and flower-filled
courtyards. Absorb the arches, the domes, the staircases, the buttresses,
the sudden tiny piazzas, the narrow walkways, the terraced gardens, the fruiting
lemon and nespoli trees, the play of shadow and light, the steep plunge into
the sea at each turn, the whitewashed everything built into the cliff sides.
Spend your day wandering the narrow walkways, browsing in the elegant boutiques
and ceramic shops, eating gelato, looking at the spectacular vistas everywhere,
and breathing Capri's fresh perfumed air. In the late afternoon, return to
Sorrento for the night.
Day 6: Sorrento - Naples
Breakfast. Spend the day enjoying Sorrento and its surroundings. In the late
afternoon, drive back to Naples and overnight.
Day 7: Naples - USA
Breakfast. Today you will transfer to the airport with sufficient time to return
the rental car and check in for you flight back to the United States. End of
our services.
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