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7 slow days from Naples / Salerno: Pompei

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A 7-day slow trip across 7 towns based out of Pompei, starting from Naples / Salerno, drawn from the 1,000 Italian communes most travelers skip.

7 days · June · food & wine-first · moderate walking

Pompei

Pompei, 7 days

Base yourself in Pompei and make these your day trips.

7 towns · qualifying pool of 26 from 75 candidates

Coastal towns in the provinces of Salerno and Napoli. Limone Costa d'Amalfi IGP, UNESCO listed, and Borghi Più Belli d'Italia.

Getting around

Rent a car for this corner. Pompei, your base, is on the rail network. Only 2 of the 7 towns have a railway station; the day trips assume driving.

Your timing

June sits in this corner's best window: open, temperate, and short of the crowd months.

While you're there

  • Vietri sul MareFesta di San Giovanni Battista, JuneJune 24 patron-saint feast on the Amalfi Coast with procession through the ceramic town and midnight fireworks from the sea.
  • RavelloRavello Festival, JuneSummer (late June to early August) music and arts festival since 1953 inspired by Wagner's 1880 visit, in Villa Rufolo and Niemeyer Auditorium with the iconic August 15 dawn concert.
  • AmalfiRegata Storica delle Antiche Repubbliche Marinare, JuneHistorical regatta and parade rotating between Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice commemorating medieval maritime rivalries.

Day 1 · Arrive in Pompei

Settle in. Pompei is your base for the next 7 days. Take the afternoon to walk the centro, find your bearings, eat something local.

Pompei

Province: Napoli

Pompei

The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.

Picked for:food and wine · coastal

Day 2 · Day trip to Vietri sul Mare

First outing. Head to Vietri sul Mare for the day. Take the slow road, leave time to wander, be back in Pompei for dinner.

Vietri sul Mare

Province: Salerno

Vietri sul Mare

The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.

Picked for:art and history · coastal · Festa di San Giovanni Battis…, June

Day 3 · Day trip to Furore

Out again, this time to Furore. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Pompei.

Furore

Province: Salerno

Furore

The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.

Picked for:food and wine · coastal

Day 4 · Day trip to Ravello

Out again, this time to Ravello. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Pompei.

Ravello

Province: Salerno

Ravello

A ridge town above the Amalfi Coast where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880.

Picked for:food and wine · coastal · Ravello Festival, June

Day 5 · Day trip to Amalfi

Out again, this time to Amalfi. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Pompei.

Amalfi

Province: Salerno

Amalfi

The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.

Picked for:art and history · coastal · Regata Storica delle Antiche…, June

Day 6 · Day trip to Positano

Out again, this time to Positano. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Pompei.

Positano

Province: Salerno

Positano

The vertical village of the Amalfi Coast, terraced houses climbing four hundred meters to the Lattari ridge under a tiled Byzantine dome.

Picked for:art and history · coastal

Day 7 · Day trip to Massa Lubrense

Last day trip in this corner, to Massa Lubrense. Make a day of it, then back to Pompei.

Massa Lubrense

Province: Napoli

Massa Lubrense

The Sorrentine Peninsula's largest commune by area, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.

Picked for:food and wine · coastal

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