NAPLES · ITALY
Pizza, Pompeii, and the long road to Positano.
A Roman city frozen by Vesuvius. A volcano you can climb. The world’s first margherita. Three islands across the bay and a cliff drive that ends in Amalfi.
If you only do one
Start with the trip everyone tells you to take.
If you’ve only got one day out of Naples, this is the one. The day the rest of the trip will measure itself against.
The classics
Naples’ Most Popular Tours
Pompeii, Vesuvius, the Amalfi drive, Capri by boat. The trips travellers come south for, in the order they book them.
Pick your day
Three shapes a Naples day takes.
Most travellers do at least one of each. A morning in the old town. The classic day out to Pompeii and Vesuvius. The long coast drive south. Pick the shape and the rest sorts itself.
Half-Day Naples
A morning in the old town.Spaccanapoli end to end. The archaeology museum. Pizza on the way back. A few hours, on foot, in the city Naples really is.
The Classic Day Out
Pompeii in the morning, Vesuvius after lunch.A Roman city frozen in 79 AD, then the volcano that froze it. The day most travellers come south for.
The Coastal Day
Positano, Amalfi, the long way back.The cliff road south through pastel villages, lemon groves and sea views. Lunch in Ravello. Home in the dark.
Only in Napoli
Three things you can’t do anywhere else.
Roman ruins exist all over Italy. Sea caves exist all over the Mediterranean. Pizza exists everywhere. The originals — the ones everyone else is copying — are all here, all within a day of the city. Worth planning around.
Born here, 1889
Pizza Margherita
Pizza was invented in Naples. The Margherita was first made here in 1889 for Queen Margherita of Savoy — the red of tomato, the white of mozzarella, the green of basil, the Italian flag on a disc of dough. UNESCO added Neapolitan pizza-making to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2017. You can still book a class with a third-generation pizzaiolo in the Spanish Quarters and shape the dough the same way.
- 1 Naples: Pizza-Making Workshop with Drink and Appetizer
- 2 Sorrento: Pizza Making Class
- 3 Sorrento: Farm Tour with Cheese Tasting & Pizza Making Class
A city paused
Pompeii
On 24 August 79 AD, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in six metres of ash. The Roman city stayed under for seventeen centuries. What was excavated is a place no other archaeological site can offer — not a ruin, but a town. Streets, frescoes, taverns, the bakery still stocked with loaves, the casts of people caught where they fell. Walk in. Look up at Vesuvius. The volcano is still there.
- 1 Pompeii: Entry Ticket with Optional Audio Guide
- 2 Pompeii: Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist
- 3 From Naples: Pompeii Ruins & Mount Vesuvius Day Tour
Capri’s sea cave
The Blue Grotto
A sea cave on the north shore of Capri. The entrance is so low you have to lie flat in the rowboat to pass under it. Inside, sunlight enters only through an underwater opening and refracts up through the water — turning the whole grotto an impossible electric blue. The boatmen sing because the acoustics make the cave a chapel. The light only behaves like this here.
- 1 Capri Blue Grotto Small-Group Boat Day Tour From Sorrento
- 2 Capri: Island Boat Tour with Blue Grotto Stop
- 3 Capri & Blue Grotto Semi Private Boat Day Trip from Sorrento
By place
Pick a corner of the Bay.
Each place is its own day. Naples for the city and the pizza. Sorrento for the cliff edge and the lemons. Pompeii for the Roman streets. The Amalfi Coast for the drive. Capri for the boats. Positano for the postcard.
By activity
Or pick how you want to spend the day.
Boat for the islands. Pizza or pasta class for the food. Wine and limoncello for an afternoon. Walking tours for the old town. E-bike for the coast. Audio if you want it on your own time.
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