Grand tour of Campania, from Napoli to Amalfi

The beginning of your 6 days Grand Tour in Campania, will start at Napoli airport.
Arrived to the Napoli airport you will be transfer to the hotel.
Check-in and ready to discover Napoli, an authentic museum under the open
sky, with a guided tour of the city, morning and afternoon.
Welcome dinner with presentation of the trip and introduction to Campanian wines and territory.

We left the hotel after breakfast direction to the port, where you will be transport by boat to the beautiful Island of Ischia.
Ischia is above all the sea, beautiful beaches and bays; from the fine sand of the Pescatori beach to the Inglesi beach, a few steps from the port of Ischia.

It is forbidden to leave Ischia, without having a bath on the Cartaromana beach, among the black rocks of volcanic rock and where it is possible to take hot baths in the natural basins that release the hot thermal springs. Practically a thermal bath in seawater, a unique experience!

The area is also loved by divers who can reconstruct the ancient history of Aenaria in the depths of the water; here, at about 7 meters deep, the remains of a lead and tin foundry were discovered.
The surrounding waters including gulfs of Gaeta, Naples and Pozzuoli are both rich and healthy, providing a habitat for around 7 species of whales and dolphins including gigantic fin and sperm whales.
At the arrival, we will visit a winery typical from the Island, Ischia DOC, where you will have a private tour and receive a private tour and the whole wine making process will be explained, taste different.
After the visit we will move to a tipycal trattoria where we will have a delicious lunch in front of the see.
Then we will move towards the sea, to the area of Cartaromana, where you will have a bath in the natural basins of hot thermals springs.
Only in Ischia can you find ancient thermal springs and natural pools that flow directly from the beach where marine waters mix with thermal waters.
Back to our Hotel in Naples and dinner at one of the most tipycal and famous Trattoria of Napoli.

After breakfast at the hotel our six days Campania tour,
continue in the direction to Salerno.
Our first stop will be at the winery located in one of the most spectacular places, Vesusio National Park.
Here you will have a private tour of the cellar and the vineyard, with the whole wine making process explained, taste different wines with a typical Roman lunch, that represents a level of experience, the one that projects us into the ancient history of this area.
MENU ': Based on the revisiting of recipes by the ancient Roman gastronomy, Marco Gaio Apicio.
The best way to experience one of the oldest wine countries in the world is to visit in person, and sample the simple yet bold wines...straightforward and perfect to pair with any meal.
A visit here is both a pleasure and a journey of discovery: explore the vineyard and gardens and savour a heaping plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce — one of humblest yet most delicious dishes in history.
Once we finish our lunch, we will continue to Pompeii, where we will meet our local guide.
Pompeii (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of
Volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city, offered a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried, and an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants
It was a wealthy town, enjoying many fine public buildings and luxurious private houses with lavish decorations, but left all the history for our local guide.
After the visit of Pompeii we will move towards to our Hotel, located in the city of Salerno.
Check-in and time for dinner and relax in front of the Mediterranean Sea.

Amalfi Coast is famous for its spectacular landscapes and for its steep cliffs, not to mention the picture-postcard villages that line the hills and bays, nice tasting of the Mediterranean Sea!

After breakfast at the hotel we will departure to a Mozzarella Farm located just a few kilometres from our Hotel.
Mozzarella is the most important among the several cheeses that are made only in a few specific provinces Italy and are based on pure buffalo milk.
Buffaloes arrived in Southern Italy around the year 1000 A.D. brought by Norman kings who created buffalo farms in Campania bringing the animals from Sicily, where they had been introduced by the Arabs. The first historical traces of this cheese dates back to the 12th century when it was called
“mozza” or “provatura”.
They were widespread in the wet areas of the Sele Valley, the most important and famous one, with about the 80% of the production.
The production of PDO buffalo mozzarella from “Mozzarella di bufala Campana” takes place in the provinces of Salerno and Caserta alone. It is characterised with a porcelain white colour and possesses a delicate flavour and typical sweet smell.
Produced fresh every day, it can be cut off by hand or by shaping machines that produce pieces of predetermined weight, from 10 grams for: perlina (beads), cigliegina (cherry), bocconcino (morsel) up to three kilograms for:
trecce (braids) and nodini (knots).
We will have a private guided tour of the farm where the whole making process will be explained with a tasting at the end overlooking the buffaloes, witch is much more than a common excursion … In this places you can taste history and contact with an incredible environment, where nature and man live in perfect symbiosis.
Specialised personnel, directly the operators of the farm, are
here to answer all your questions and curiosities.
Finish our visit to the Mozarella Farm, we will make our move to Pasteum, a perfectly preserved city of Magna Grecia.
The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek Temples, dating from about 600 to 450 BC, which are in a very good state of preservation.
The city walls and amphitheatre are largely intact, and the bottom of the walls of many other structures remain, as well as paved roads.
The whole ancient city of Paestum covers an area of approximately 120 hectares. Only the 25 hectares that contain the three main temples and the other main buildings have been excavated.
The other 95 hectares remain on private land and have not been studied. The city is surrounded by defensive walls that still stand.
Then we will move to our Hotel in order to rest a little be, before you will be taken for a dinner Cooking Pizza Class with dinner.

After Breakfast, we will start to move direction to the Port, where our private boat will be waiting for us.
We will be all day in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, visiting beaches and hidden caves.
Lunch on the boat or in one of the hidden bitches where only us will be.
Back to the Hotel and pack for next day departure before dinner.

Back to the Napoli Airport or Central Train Station at the time you needed.