Best of Sorrento, Naples, and the Amalfi Coast

Our Amalfi Coast culinary tour in Sant’Agnello di Sorrento and Naples may be altered slightly due to weather, season, and opening and closing time of establishments.

Day One – Sunday

• Transfer from the Naples airport or train station to your accommodations at a luxury hotel in Sant’Agnello di Sorrento. Check in to your home for your Amalfi Coast culinary tour and free time to relax or explore.
• Dinner tonight is a 3-course a la carte meal at the hotel’s restaurant on the top floor, with a breathtaking view of the coast (wine not included).
• Overnight.

Day Two – Monday

• Today enjoy a full day Amalfi Coast food tour to some of the area’s most famous towns.
• Your first stop is in Montepertuso, a beautiful village just above Positano. While here, meet the chef of a local restaurant for a hands-on cooking class focused on traditional Amalfi Coast dishes.
• Lunch to follow based on your efforts. Then, learn how the local limoncello liqueur is made.
• After lunch, discover the beautiful village of Positano with its narrow, winding streets and staircases, and Amalfi, an ancient Maritime Republic that is famous for its beautiful cathedral and its traditions as a fishing village.
• On the way back to Sorrento stop at the beautiful village of Ravello. Situated on top of a steep cliff, Ravello overlooks Maiori and Minori as well as the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Salerno, which you can see from its famous villas such as the Villa Rufulo.
• Return back to Sorrento.
• Dinner on your own and overnight.

Day Three – Tuesday

• Breakfast at the hotel and morning at leisure to relax by the pool or do some shopping on your own.
• Later in the morning, enjoy a pizza demonstration where a local “pizzaiuolo” will show you how to make a traditional wood-fired Neapolitan pizza.
• Enjoy your pizza for lunch to follow.
• After lunch, head to downtown Sorrento to learn the secrets of making gelato and sorbetto at a local gelateria. Of course you will also taste some of the delicious flavors!
  Return back to the hotel via the hotel shuttle bus, or enjoy the walk back (about 15-20 mintues).
• Dinner on your own and overnight.

Day Four – Friday

• In the morning head off on a private Gozzo (traditional Sorrentine boat) to the amazing island of Capri. Your full day trip to this gorgeous island will include 3 hours on board and 3 hours on the island where you can explore on your own, as well as an aperitif on board. Capri has been inhabited since prehistoric times, was then a Greek colony and also an Emperor’s resort at the beginning of the ancient Roman Empire. Capri was home to residences of the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius, including Tiberius’s excavated Villa Iovis. During the 10th century the citizens of Capri transferred their settlements from the seaside to the safer locations they still inhabit high above the shore. Capri eventually became part of the Abbey of Montecassino and then of the Kingdom of Naples, and you can see its history through the ages in its ruins and monuments. (Please note that if unavailable due to weather an alternate excursion will be proposed.)
• Return back to Sorrento in the afternoon.
• Dinner tonight is a 3-course tasting menu at the hotel’s restaurant (wine included).
• Overnight.

Day Five – Thursday

• Breakfast, and check out.
• This morning, you are off to Naples! Enjoy an excursion on the way at Pompeii, where you will explore the ruins of the Ancient Roman city that was entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 BC and unearthed in 1748. You will have a guided tour of this remarkably well-preserved site.
• Later, proceed on your culinary tour of Italy to a local wine estate at the foot of the Volcano Vesuvio for a wine tasting and light lunch.
• Continue to Naples and check in to your hotel.
• Your dinner tonight will be at a traditional Naples restaurant within walking distance of your hotel (wine included).
• Overnight.

Day Six – Thursday

• Breakfast.
• Meet your private guide this morning for a 6-hour Naples food tour and cultural discovery. You will pass by some of the city’s most famous monuments such as the Royal Palace, the Teatro San Carlo, the Maschio Angioino, the Galleria Umberto, and Piazza del Peblescito.
• Continue along in the heart of the old city along the “Spaccanapoli” street, which was the east-west Roman road that splits the city in two. Your cultural discovery of Naples will include the Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Santa Chiara, the Via di San Gregorio Armeno (where artisans craft the iconic presepi , or nativity scenes, of Naples), the Cattedrale di San Gennaro, and the Cappella San Severo, home of Giuseppe Sanmartino’s “Cristo Velato” (Veiled Christ), one of the Italy’s most famous sculptures.
• During your Naples food tour and cultural discover you will stop for tastings of typical Neapolitan street food such as “pizza a portafoglio,” “pizza fritta,” “cuoppo,” and the delicious dessert “sfogliatella.”
• Return to your hotel on your own (either on foot if you still want to explore or by taxi).
• Dinner on your own and overnight.

Day Seven – Saturday

• Breakfast and check out. Transfer either to the Naples train station or Naples airport.