Sorrento and Amalfi coast tour from Naples port

You will meet your driver at the Port of Naples because we offer to you a Sorrento and Amalfi coast tour from Naples port. Leaving the Port you will have in front of you one of the most important square in Naples, dominated by the Maschio Angioino, a massive Castle built in 1279.

Here during the works for the subway the Roman port, with ships, amphoras and thermal baths came to light. driving south you will reach the highway driving towards Sorrento. you will be close to Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano, last eruption was in March 1944, on the opposite site you will enjoy the view on the entire bay of Naples, with its islands: Capri, Ischia and Procida and the Sorrento Peninsula. During the Sorrento and Amalfi coast tour from Naples port,  you will pass Herculaneum, Oplontis and Pompeii, Roman towns destroyed by a terrible eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79AD.

From Castellammare di Stabia, famous for its shipyard the oldest in the Mediterrenean, where in 1831 during the kingdom of the two Sicilies, they built the first cruise ship of the world, the Francesco I, you will take a beautiful coastal road to Sorrento. You will reach the main piazza called Piazza Tasso, named after a very famous Italian poet born here. You will have free time for a walk in the characteristic historical centre, San Cesareo lanes with typical shops and imposing buildings of the seventeenth hundreds and the Sedil Dominova,a noble seat of the XIV, with the typical majolica dome. Sorrento is famous for a lemon drink called Limoncello, for the inlaid wood/marquetterie that you will find in its picturesque historical center rich in little shops and gelaterias.

The Sorrento and Amalfi coast tour from Naples port continues to the amazing Amalfi Coast, considered the most beautiful drive in the world, for a stop to the romantic Positano and the delightful Amalfi, on the way you will be facing the gulf of Salerno with the little islands of Li Galli or Syrenuse Islands, where according to the legend the Syrens used to live. Through a twisty bendy road you will reach Positano, the driver will leave you right at the beginning of the center that will enchant you with the narrow streets, cafes, art galleries and boutiques.

In the afternoon the Sorrento and Amalfi coast tour from Naples port continues to the discover of Amalfi. On the way you will pass the fishermen village of Praiano, with its church dedicated to San Gennaro, bishop of Benevento who was martyred in the fourth century under the reign of Diocletian. The building, with a beautiful polychrome majolica dome, was built in the sixteenth century on the ruins of an earlier church of the same name.

Praiano is famous also for a picturesque Christmas crib built in a cave that you will see.

Along the drive passing watch towers, natural beauties and villas, before approaching Amalfi, you will pass the fijord of Furore, a tiny fishing village that was inhabited, among others, by Roberto Rossellini (who shot the film Love) and Anna Magnani, who was romantically linked to him. Amalfi will welcome you with its beautiful beach and cliff. The driver will stop you right in the center where you can have the chance to visit the gorgeous cathedral, with a magnificent façade and the cloister of paradise and the crypt containing the relics of St andrew, patron saint of the city. Amalfi was the first Italian maritime republic, and the traces of its glorious past are everywhere. Only here you fill find the famous Amalfi hand made paper, its soft texture is incomparable. Then the tour will continue to Ravello where you can visit the beautiful gardens of Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbrone. You will return back to Naples, through a mountain road, very panoramic, passing many other villages.