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DIVINE TOUR - AMALFI COAST
Details
TOUR TO THE AMALFI DRIVE:
DURATION: | 8/9 hours | |
PRICE: | According to the number of participants | |
AVAILABILITY: | All-year-round | |
| English-speaking driver & Air-conditioned Mercedes (or similar make) at your disposal for 8/9 hours ENTRANCE FEE OF VILLA RUFOLO INCLUDED | |
Itinerary Details are listed below:
TOUR SCHEDULE OF AMALFI COAST
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| Meeting with the driver and his car by your hotel |
| Transfer to Positano and 1 hour of free time |
| Transfer to Amalfi |
| Free time to visit the Cathedral of Amalfi and the Cloister of the Paradise - entrance fee not included - |
| Free time for shopping and lunch (not included) at Amalfi |
| Transfer to Ravello and visit of Villa Rufolo (tickets included). - Free time |
| Back to your hotel |
The Amalfi Drive is considered one of the most spectacular roads in Europe and from Sorrento the winding cliff top road offers breathtaking panoramic views from every bend. An English-speaking driver with a Mercedes (or a similar make) vehicle - with air conditioning - and a professional guide pick You up by Your hotel. After a first stretch of the drive, all along this enchanting road that seems to be suspended in air, Positano is reached.
Short-Stop to admire that beautiful village from a panoramic terrace. Then we proceed to Positano: 1 hour of free time there. After that we continue for Amalfi. This town, now a thriving holiday resort, was once a powerful and prosperous Maritime Republic, and homeland of Flavio Gioia, the inventor of the compass. The beautiful cathedral, with its richly decorated façade, stands at the top of steps leading up from the main square, and houses the remains of the patron saint of Amalfi, Saint Andrew. There is free time for lunch.
After the visit of the town the drive proceeds for Ravello, where the medieval centre and Villa Rufolo will make the visitors step back into the glorious past of this magnificent little village.
Villa Rufolo is famous also because it gave the musician Richard Wagner the inspiration to create one of his most well-known operas, Parsifal. Nowadays every year classical concerts take place.
THIS TOUR WILL OPERATE RAIN OR SHINE, SO BE PREPARED FOR ANY WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS IS A PRIVATE SHORE EXCURSION WITH PRICES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAVELLING IN YOUR PARTY!
HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This large building (approx. 2,700 sq.m.) was created by joining two residential complexes which covered an area nearly equal to that of the whole insula.
The house can be entered both from Via dell’Abbondanza and from Via Stabiana. It is arranged around two atria and three peristyle, and its name derives from a bronze statue of Apollo playing the lyre (today in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples).
Magnificent paintings and bronze portraits of famous personalities also found in it and are now on shown in the same museum.
As is inferred from electoral propaganda and a number of graffiti, it belonged to the Popidius family.
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 2, 2, 10) Ingredients:
- 200 gr. spelt
- 50 gr. pine-kernel
- 50 gr. peeled almond
- 50 gr. raisins
- 1/2 glass Passum (or passito wine)
- Ground pepper
Instructions:
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Soften spelt in water for a long while (12 hours). Then wash and coarsely shatter. Add pine-kernel and peeled almond and cook until spelt is soft. Add raisins and Passum and amalgamate all. Pour into individuals pans and spread with pepper. Serve cold.
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.