Duration : 9 Hours ( from 8am to 5pm)
Places: Pompeii, Positano , Amalfi , Ravello, Amalfi coast
Available from: Naples port
This shore excursion to Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast departs from the port of Naples will take you to the beautiful Amalfi Coast, a dream place, where you will be able to enjoy stunning views and discover the small coastal cities, originally small villages, that have now become truly international tourist destinations. You will also learn more about the ancient history of Campania with a visit to the archeological site of Pompeii, one of the most famous archeological sites in the world.
Your driver will be waiting for you at a pick up point of your choice to drive you to the first stop of the shore excursion Pompeii, in a modern totally equipped, air-conditioned and insured Mercedes car.
In Pompeii, you will visit the most important archaeological site in Italy after the Roman one, thanks to convenient audio guides, or using an authorised guide of Campania that your driver will help you contact.
Pompeii is a dream place where time has stood still at the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, whose fury destroyed it completely, and left it forgotten and in darkness for about 7 centuries.
After the visit to Pompeii, we will head towards the Amalfi Coast and on the way, your driver will be happy to show you the most scenic and characteristic spots where you can take the best photos of your holiday in Italy.
In Amalfi coast, there are many beautiful towns to see but the most famous are Positano, Amalfi and Ravello.
Positano, the vertical city, is visited by VIPs and celebrities from all over the world who are used to spending part of their vacation here. There will be free time for walking and shopping. We will stop in Amalfi, the capital of the Amalfi coast, a medieval city and one of the four maritime republics together with Pisa, Genoa and Venice, where you can visit the Duomo di Sant’Andrea with the famous staircase.
The last stop of the shore excursion will be Ravello, a romantic city and devoted to music, where famous people like Greta Garbo, Gore Vidal and Wagner lived. The town is perched on the hills above Amalfi and dominates the Gulf giving amazing views that can be enjoyed from the terrace of infinity, a seventeenth-century terrace located at Villa Rufolo which together with Villa Cimbrone are the most beautiful and old towns of the city, of medieval and architectural origin.
The shore excursion to Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast departing from the port of Naples can be personalised depending on your interests because along the coast you will see many other sites and towns like the Fiordo di Furore, Conca dei Marini and the Emerald Grotto, a sea cave of karst origins that can be explored from the sea and offers glimpses of an emerald sea thanks to a gap in the rock from where they sunlight sneaks in.
The shore excursion to Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast departing from the port of Naples, ends with the return to the port at an agreed time.