Tailors & Luxury Experience From Naples Full Day Tour

Handicraft is  an art.This is exactly what happens in Naples, where art and history interweave with popular traditions and Mediterranean colours and tastes. Look, Touch and Try most famous hands-made clothes for man or women,just designed on you size and body directly on luxury factory  So let’s go shopping  at Kiton Factory,Attolini Factory,Marinella Factory ,San Leucio Silk   Factory  and try to take with us back home a piece of Neapolitan history and tradition!  

Naples Shopping & Cooking Experience

  Handicraft could be an art, local food and wines might become high gastronomy! This is exactly what happens in Naples, where art and history interweave with popular traditions and Mediterranean colours and tastes. The basic colours of the hand-painted ceramic are the same of our natural environment; red coral is the typical local stone but the armchairs of the San Carlo Theatre are red as well; fish, clams and molluscs represented on the ancient mosaics from Pompei are the same ones we still use to make delicious dishes nowadays; glittering gold is the same used by the earliest goldsmith’s to make the precious mitre of San Gennaro!   And so let’s go shopping and try to take with us back home a piece of Neapolitan history and tradition!  Tour 1. Ties and leather goods (Chiaia district) Tour 2. Antique jewellery , coral and gold by the weight (Ascione) Tour 3. Mandoline, Neapolitan music instruments and Christmas nativity (Historical centre) Tour 4. Chocolate, taralli and pasta (Historical centre) Tour 5. Mozzarella, lemon liqueur and gnocchi (Sorrento)  

Naples History & Art Experience Full day Tour

A city, which has been a capital city for many centuries, of course has monuments, which are the mirror of its past and glory: five castles, five Royal Palaces, pictures’ galleries, hundred of churches and each of these monuments deserves a visit. But not everybody stays in Naples 10 days! This is way this category of tours helps the visitor to choose between museums, Royal Palaces and walks through the old city. Of course the historical information will be accompanied by stories, legends and anectodes, so that the tour never becomes too specific and sciolistic.  Tour 1 ROYAL PALACES: CASERTA AND CAPODIMONTE The Royal Palace of Caserta, built by will of the Bourbon King Charles III in 1752 is one of the most impressive royal palaces in Italy and the second biggest one of Europe after Versailles.. You will first visit the royal apartments, then see the beautiful park, which stretches on a surface of about 120 ha., with fountains and statues. The Royal Palace of Capodimonte is situated on the top of a hill and surrounded by a wonderful park. It represents a magnificent example of the 18th century architecture. Precious collections of paintings (with masterpieces by Caravaggio, Raffaello, Tiziano, Carracci), porcelains, furniture and objets d'art. The Palace also hosts a gallery of 19th century works of art and the Royal Apartments, with furniture and decorations in different styles and of different ages, the China and majolica collections and the arms museum. Tour 2 THE CASTLES AND THE GATES OF NAPLES AND THE CASTLE OF BAIA A tour through the castles and the gates of the city, which still show us the size of the ancient Greek (Greek walls of piazza Bellini) Neapolis and how it developed over the centuries, with the Anjou and the Aragonese. A tour through the Castles, which tell us history but also stories and legends of the characters, who made Naples a great capital city: Castel dell’Ovo, the New Castle, the Castello del Carmine, Castel Capuano, Castel Sant’Elmo. And then another castle out of the city, the one of Baia, but very both for the architecture and for the materials used for the construction.    

Archeology Experience Naples & Surrounding Full day Tour

The region of Campania has been inhabited since ever and, as a consequence, there are many archaeological areas to be visited, so this category of tours really is very rich. Some of these tours are very well known destinations,, always part of the itineraries, but besides these ones there are many areas, which are not world famous or so much visited. So even the visitor, who has been here already, has the opportunity to see something new but however interesting. This category includes, besides the ruins, the museums where most of the findings are kept, therefore fulfilling the archaeological interest. Tour 1 ERCOLANO AND OPLONTIS Ercolano was a holiday resort at the Roman times, so famous for its namesake, Hercules, beautifully located at the foot of Vesuvio. The city was submerged in 79 A.D. by mud slides, leaving us an extraordinary amount of material witnessing its daily life. Oplontis was the residential villa which belonged to Poppea, Emperor Nero's wife, buried by the 79 A.D. eruption as well and shows its visitors an extraordinary amount of perfectly preserved frescoes decorations. Tour 2 PAESTUM AND VELIA Greek colonizers since the 11th century b.C. travelling around the Mediterranean founded in southern Italy some of their most flourishing colonies, like Paestum and Velia, both located in the most southern part of Campania. Paestum has the most beautiful and best preserved Greek temples of continental Italy, the best example of Doric archaic architecture; Velia was a sophisticated philosophical city and has the only Greek gate with a round arch.

Archeology Experience Naples & Surrounding Half day Tour

  The region of Campania has been inhabited since ever and, as a consequence, there are many archaeological areas to be visited, so this category of tours really is very rich. Some of these tours are very well known destinations,, always part of the itineraries, but besides these ones there are many areas, which are not world famous or so much visited. So even the visitor, who has been here already, has the opportunity to see something new but however interesting. This category includes, besides the ruins, the museums where most of the findings are kept, therefore fulfilling the archaeological interest. Tour 1  POMPEI During the eruption of 79 A.d. Pompei was not destroyed but just "sealed off" by volcanic materials, its preservation is unique in the world. When you visit Pompei, you literally travel back to the past. Streets, shops, villas, baths are all intact, with still bright frescoes and mosaics. In this tour, you will admire the Forum area with its public buildings, the temples, the market place, the spas, the villas of rich Roman merchants.  Tour 2 PHLAEGREN FIELDS The northern extremity of the bay of Naples, also known as the bay of Pozzuoli, is a mixture of landscape, history and archaeology. During the tour you’ll visit the ruins of Cuma, the first greek colony of the Mediterranean; Pozzuoli, which became during the Roman Empire, one of the richest ports of the Empire; and the Solfatara, an impressive example of a resting volcano, with bubbling mud and fumerolles, a moon-like scenary..   

Archeology Experience Naples & Surrounding Short Tour

The region of Campania has been inhabited since ever and, as a consequence, there are many archaeological areas to be visited, so this category of tours really is very rich. Some of these tours are very well known destinations,, always part of the itineraries, but besides these ones there are many areas, which are not world famous or so much visited. So even the visitor, who has been here already, has the opportunity to see something new but however interesting. This category includes, besides the ruins, the museums where most of the findings are kept, therefore fulfilling the archaeological interest. Tour 1. NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM A brief glance to one of the world’s most important museums, visiting the collection of mosaics, frescoes, silver and glass artifacts found in Pompei. Tour 2. OPLONTIS An elegant roman villa, which belonged to Poppea, Emperor Nero's wife. The villa was buried by the 79 A.D. eruption and it offers an to its visitors an extraordinary example of perfectly preserved frescoes decorations.  

Landscape & Views Naples and Surrounding Experience – Full day Tour

  Tour 1.  CAPRI ISLAND Capri island, known as the Blue Isle, is famous for its steep cliffs, enchanting caves, its winding panoramic streets and its colourful architecture. You can reach the town of Anacapri and visit the Museum of Villa San Michele. From its cliff-top gardens, you will enjoy magnificent views of the island. Or visit of the town of Capri and the famous "Piazzetta", meeting point of international jet set. . Tour 2  ISCHIA ISLAND The “green Island”, the ancient volcanic activity offers today wonderful and lush vegetation and hot springs all over the island. A drive through the five small villages, each of them with different charm and characteristics, stopping every now and then to enjoy the beautiful panorama. Visit of the Aragonese Castle, imposing fortress which summarise the history of the island. Tour 3 AMALFI DRIVE You will drive all along the coast as far as Amalfi, once a rich and powerful maritime republic where you can visit the famous cathedral. From Amalfi you will reach Ravello, through spontaneous vegetation, luxuriant gardens and Mediterranean agriculture. Once in Ravello, you will visit the famous Villa Rufolo, which inspired Wagner’s Parsifal and Villa Cimbrone, with breathtaking views.