ACTIVE ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS: MONDAY | THURSDAY
• Private transportation in small groups (max 18 people)
• Lunch (pizza and soft drink included)
• Drinks on board (beer, coke, water)
• Professional driver
• English-speaking guide on board
• Snack (Neapolitan sfogliatella and coffee)
• Recommended visits (not included): Monastery of Santa Chiara (6€), The Veiled Christ (7€), Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore (9€)
• Not to forget: passport, camera, comfortable shoes, covered legs and arms in churches.
Visiting Naples means going to one of the most beautiful and famous cities in the world, a city founded by the Greeks more than 2,500 years ago, capital of a Kingdom that lasted a thousand years, home of Italian Opera and song, noble and plebeian city. The trip to Naples, even for a single day, is a journey through history, tradition, and culture.
The tour of the city can start from the Maschio Angioino, the castle guarding the port built by the French rulers who made it the capital of the Kingdom in 1300, a kingdom that was among the largest in Europe and that lasted until 1860, when Garibaldi conquered it and united it with the rest of Italy. The monumental entrance door is an Arch of Triumph, an extraordinary work of sculpture from the 400s.
The promenade stretches for kilometers overlooking the most beautiful bay in the world, as Goethe said, with a view of the island of Capri and Vesuvius overlooking the Gulf. Castel dell'Ovo is another of the fortifications that defended the city and today embellishes it.
The Old Town of the city still retains the Greek urban layout, with the two decumanus that cross it on the axis along the sea and the cardo that rises from the hill to the sea. Around the historic center you can experience a city that is inhabited by a lively, quick population, always on the move, still attached to its traditions. The alleys that climb the hill, the large doors of the noble palaces next to the most popular houses, the artisan shops, the many pizzerias that offer delicacies to passers-by, the clothes hanging between one house and another. And then the wonderful churches rich in works of art ranging from the '300 to the Baroque, San Giorgio Maggiore, San Domenico Maggiore, San Paolo, the chapel of San Severo.
Eating pizza in Naples is an experience not to be missed: some pizzerias are centuries-old institutions, together with tourists you eat with citizens on quick breaks, with intellectuals and artists who converse quickly, with people of all types and all species: in Naples pizza is not simply food, it is a piece of history. And if you want to see another example of tradition carried on for centuries at the highest level, between craftsmanship and art, visit Via San Gregorio Armeno, the street of nativity scenes, where artisans, who come for generations, hand-make the figures of the Nativity scene that all families in Naples prepare for the Christmas period.
If there is time for a short break, taste a Neapolitan coffee, hot, ristretto, black, and taste a sfogliatella or a babà, sweets of the ancient traditional Neapolitan pastry.
For a longer visit there would be more to see, from the Archaeological Museum with the finds of Pompeii, to the Pinacoteca di Capodimonte, with exceptional paintings, from Titian to Brughel to Caravaggio. But at least, before leaving, pass through the large Piazza del Plebiscito, with the Royal Palace, the San Carlo Theater, the temple of opera, and the view of the Gulf of Naples, the most beautiful bay in the world.