Pompeii Vesuvius and Wine Tour from Naples Port

You will meet your driver at the Port of Naples and making your way to the Pompeii, Vesuvius and wine 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 Pompeii. 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. The firs stop about Pompeii, Vesuvius and wine tour from Naples port, will be Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by a terrible eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79AD. Here you will see the remains of the city and its highlights: the Forum with all the public buildings,the Curia, the Basilica, Apollo's Temple, the Eumachia Building, the Macellum; the original roads with shops and houses, the Theater, the Lupanare, preserved stuccoes and mosaics and you will not miss the plaster casts of the victims, caught in their last moments.

After the visit, the trip about Pompeii, Vesuvius and wine tour from Naples port continues to a vineyard at the foot of Mount Vesuvius for a light lunch in a beautiful terrace where you can taste the food and the wines of the area and finish with a distilled grappa of apricot. The area is famous for wine since the Roman times, when they built farm houses all around the mountain. The combination of the geologic conformation of Vesuvius slopes, the rare characteristics of volcanic soil and a marvelous microclimate make the territory one of Italy’s most interesting viti-cultural areas,. The Lacryma Christi, ( literally "tears of Christ") is the name of the wine produced here. According to the legend when Lucifer and the fallen angels were cast out from heaven, they grabbed a piece of it as they were forced to leave. As Lucifer fell, chunks of paradise landed on Mt. Vesuvius. When God saw what had happened, he cried. His tears became vines on the slopes of the volcano. After the wine taste your driver will take you to Mt Vesuvius. mt 1281, about 40 minutes driving from Pompeii, back on the highway until Torre del Greco, famous for the cameos and coral jewelry. From here you will take the road up to the mountain. this mountain road is very panoramic and during the drive you will see many sculptures, made of lava rocks by local and international artists. the mountain is an active volcano, classed as a complex stratovolcano, because its eruptions typically involve explosive eruptions as well as pyroclastic flows.

Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to the large population of the province of Naples, driving up you will pass the observatory, first volcanological observatory in the world, built during the reign of Ferdinand II of Borbon in 1841, and the last petrified lava flow of the 1944 eruption. By car you will stop at 1000mt. from here you can walk up to the top of the mountain, the hike is graded 'easy to moderate' by trekking guides, and permit you to look inside the crater, where sometimes is possible to see rising fumes, after the visit of the volcano your driver will drive you back to the port of Naples.