Amalfi coast & Capri
 7 Days
/ 6 Nights
Day 1 ARRIVAL
Day 2 CAPRI
Day 3 PAESTUM
Day 4 POMPEI
Day 5 NAPLES
Day 6 AMALFI
Day 7 DEPARTURE
Day 1: ARRIVAL
Arrival to Napoli airport, meet your privat driver and tarnsfer to your hotel
in Sorrento.
The remainder of the day is at leisure.
Dinner at the restaurant of the Hotel.
Day 2: DAY TO CAPRI
Private car trft to the harbour to take the boat over the island of Capri.
Upon arrival, a beautiful private local taxi and local guide, will take us to
the highest village on the island of Capri Anacapri where we will visit the
Villa San Michele. Lunch in a typical restaurant in Capri. Continue, after lunch,
the visit around the village of Capri. We will come back to Sorrento in the
evening. Evening on your own.
Day 3: DAY TO PAESTUM
After breakfast, departure with private car to Paestum, this is one of the
best preserved temples in Magna Grecia, we will also have the opportunity to
visit the very interesting museum. The "Sele" valley that was drained
after the second world, is today a fertile agricultural area, large farms are
breeding water buffaloes to use their milk for the production of "Mozzarella
di Bufala" the famous and very tasty fresh cheese. We are going to visit
a farm where the breeding is done on an ecological basis using only biological
products and natural medicines to cure the animals, we are having lunch at this
farm with the products produced including the delicious "mozzarella"
and the dessert is a yoghurt produced from buffaloes milk. We drive back to
the hotels and here we have time on our own to walk around the small charming
village of Vietri, it's possible to visit ceramic producers and discover how
the exquisite lemon liquor "limoncello" is produced. For the one who
wish Salerno is not far away for a visit. Evening on your own.
Day 4: EXCURSION TO POMPEI
After breakfast, departure with private car to the visit of Pompei with a
local guide doing an interesting walk through this unique area. Lunch on your
own in the archaeological area, after lunch time on your own to explore Pompei.
Back to the hotel in the evening dinner in a nice restaurant in Sorrento, with
a local menù.
Day 5: EXSCURSION TO NAPLES
Naples is one of western Europe's oldest cities with a long and intricate
history. We will do a panoramic tour with private car and visit the archaeological
museum, with interesting remains from Pompeji and Herculaneum. We take a walk
into the heart of the historical part of the city, where we can see daily life
in Napoli today. We are going to have a Pizza for lunch and drink an espresso
coffee in the city where they know how to do it best. Evening on your own in
Sorrento.
Day 6: EXSCURSION TO AMALFI
After breakfast, departure with private car to along the south part of the
Sorrento peninsula to the town of Amalfi. Amalfi, originally Roman, was the
first Sea Republic of Italy. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it was the
first city to re-establish relationships between East and West by transporting
and introducing into Italy exotic merchandise such as carpets, coffee and paper.
We visit the Duomo built about the 6th century and dedicated to St Andrew the
Apostle whose remains are kept in the crypt Its present facade, brilliant with
mosaics, is in Oriental style; its bronze doors, the first ones to appear in
Italy, were given to Amalfi by Pantaleone di Mauro Comite, a noble man from
Amalfi who melted them in the 11th century in Constantinople where he lived
and led the Imperial Party. Farewell Dinner in one of the most beautiful restaurant
in Amalfi coast.
Day 7: DEPARTURE
Transfer from hotel to Napoli airport.
Suggested hotels:
Sorrento: Grand Hotel Vittoria, Grand Hotel Cocumella
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