Naples and SorrentoA tour discovering Naples secrets and the magnificent Sorrento

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Visiting  the Monumental part of Naples you start from the Plebiscito Square, where you can admire the facade of the Royal Palace, stopping at the Gambrinus, for the "coffee and sfogliatella" . After walking trough Via Toledo, the centre of the Neapolitan shopping, and then the magnificent Umberto I Gallery  and the facade of the San Carlo Theatre. Then Going to Pompeii where the guide will take you slowly through some of the ancient streets of Pompeii where you can see the Baths, Forums and Villas built by the prosperous Romans in the year 80 B.C. Marvel at the fabulously preserved Frescos

Positano is the coast's most expensive and photogenic town and Amalfi itself if a popular day-trip option, with the town of Ravello perched high on a hill looking down over it. Even Salerno, though mainly useful as a transport hub, has a lovely old town with winding medieval streets.

Today Sorrento is a charming city with over one hundred comfortable hotels.
It is rich of artistic sights as St. Francis’s Church, Villa Comunale, Correale Museum and the Cathedral.
The church of St. Francis with its lovely bell tower and the monastery which contains interesting cloisters from the 14 the century whose capitals support arches pointed in the Morish style.
The cathedral is renovated in the 15th century with its campanile.
The museum Correale di terranova is housed in an 18th century palace. On the grand floor there is a very interesting archaelogical collection. Particulary impressive are the museum’s collections of 17th and 18th century, furniture mostly Neapolita and china from Dresden, Vienna and Naples.
Beyond the Correale Museum you reach a terrace called “Belvedere” where you can admire the view of the sea and beatiful sunsets.
As legends tell Ulisses resisted here the call of the sirens. The city is also the birthplace of Tasso (1544), the author of Jerusalem Delivered. The villa where he was born is now part of the well known Hotel Tramontano.

Food and Drink
In the meny restaurants of the city you can taste several spacialities of the traditional local way of cooking as the “pizza”, “gnocchi alla sorrentina”

Every itinerary can be modified to fit any special need or request.