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Excursions  from Naples

Napoli - tramonto Napoli - Castel dell'Ovo

> Full Day visit of Naples (6 hrs)

> Full Day visit of Capri and Anacapri (8 hrs)  
> Half Day visit of Pompei (5 hrs)
> Full Day visit of Amalfi, Positano and Sorrento (8 hrs)

 

City Tours

Full Day visit of Naples
(6 hrs)    

The guide will meet  you at  hotel  and  start the   a walking tour of the Monumental square of Piazza del Plebescito where the clients will be able to admire the Royal Palace, the S.Carlo opera house and the Galleria Umberto. Visit of  the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is one of the best archaeological museums in the world.
Most of the treasures from Pompeii and Herculaneum have been transferred to this museum. There is also a priceless collection of paintings and bronze works.
Visit  of the called “Spaccanapoli” with the Gesù Nuovo and Santa Chiara Churches. End of the visit.


Excursions from Naples
Full Day visit of Capri and Anacapri
(8 hrs)

The driver  will meet  you at the  hotel  and the   guide  will wait  for you at  the  dock for embarkation to the Capri Island. Once arrived  a private  car   will be at   disposal for the   tour of the  island.
The tour starts with a guided visit to Anacapri and Axel Munthe's Belvedere. The tour then continues to the centre of Capri, the famous little square drawing -room of the world and the Augustus's gardens. The Piazzetta is the point where all the narrow and winding streets end up: Via Longano, Via Le Botteghe, Via Acquaviva and Via Vittorio Emmanuele. The streets are full of boutiques, local craft stores, jewelry shops, hotels and night clubs. The picturesque left side of Saint Stephen's Chruch, and the funicular railway terrace, with walls remain from the 4th and 5th century, and links it to the center of the island with its Marina Grande port..
The three Faraglioni (stacks) are probably the most known attraction of Capri. The first, next to the coast, is named Stella and it is 109 meters high; the most external one is named Scopolo, 104 meters high; between them, the Faraglione di mezzo, 81 meters high, with a natural gallery that goes from side to side, long 60 meters. Back to Naples  by  hydrofoil.
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Half Day visit of Pompei
(5 hrs)

Pompeii's excavations. While you walk through the streets of Pompeii you can visit the houses and shops of the once resident Roman Particians who lived here before to eruption of A.D.79.
Pompeii is unique in the world as it gives us the possibility to reconstruct the daily life of the inhabitants of a city that on a catastrophic way (the eruptios of the Vesivius) has immortalized. The love for architecture, gardens and frescoes can be seen in the homes of the Pompei citizens. The gardens were full of fountains, thanks to the possibility of use the running water. Mosaics completed the decoration inside the houses. The heart of the city life, commercial and political activities, the centre of all the economical, and the classic meeting point, the "piazza" of Pompeii, was the Forum. The Basilica, the Comitium, the government seats, the Giove's temple. And many other temples that testify the religious culture.
The most popular places of the city were the Thermae and were divided into male and female sections, included a calidarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath) and frigidarium (cold bath), and other rooms were used for massages and aesthetic procedures. The body care was completed in the gymnasiums for sport activities.
The Market (Macellum) one could buy vegetables and meat. The big theatre, used for classic shows, comedies  tragedies could accommodate up to 5000 spectators, while the small theatre was used for musical and mime shows.
The gladiator games took place at the great eliptical Anfitheater, it held a capacity of 12000 persons. Back to  Naples  after the visit.
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Full Day visit of Amalfi, Positano and Sorrento
(8 hrs)

The guide and driver will meet  you at  your hotel and you  will reach Amalfi, an old maritime republic, for a visit to the historical centre . Amalfi founded an imposing hospital in Jerusalem which could contain 2000 beds and which gave birth, in 1112, thanks to Brother Gerardo Sasso from Scala, to the first military and religious Order called at first the Knights of St.John, then the Knights of Cyprus, of Rhodes and, in 1530, of Malta, still existing today. The Knights fought repeatedly against the Saracens and, in 849, they defended Rome and the Church in the famous battle of Ostia.
Then we will stop to admire the sea village of Positano from the top of a hill. One of most elegant and well-known health-resorts of the Amalfi Coast and has ancient origins, because it was founded by the fugitives of Paestum, escaped from the Saracens. Situated in an enchanting position, Positano was a favourite destination for great artists such as Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, and illustrious personages of culture such as Rossellini, Toscanini, Bernstein, Steinbeck and Pirandello. After that will continue our trip to Sorrento  known  for  its tourist  vocation since  the so-called Grand Tour a journey through the most important Italian sights that every noble European son of the time had to make to complete his cultural, historical and literary formation. Distinguished guests such as Byron, Keats, Scott, Dickens, Goethe, Wagner, Ibsen and Nitzsche, to just mention the most famous, came to stay in Sorrento in search of sun and inspiration. Back to Naples.
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