GUIDED TOUR OF PAESTUM AND BUFFALO MOZZARELLA FARM WITH AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
Private Tour
(for up to 6 people)
Minivan with driver + guide.
Tour Duration
7/8 Hours
Tour Availability
All year long
Meeting Point
By your cruise ship or accommodation
Photo Gallery
What makes this tour special?
This excursion is ideal for families with children as it creatively combines culture and entertainment. You will visit the temples, museum and visit a buffalo mozzarella farm with its breeding of buffaloes.
The Temples of Paestum, recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site since 1988, are considered some of the most magnificent and best preserved Greek temples in Doric order in the world.
With a private limousine chauffeur and private archaeological guide at your disposal, all you will need to do is sit back and enjoy this wonderful full day tour in comfort.
Why should you choose this tour ?
- This tour is designed specifically for families and children.
- Relax with our tour and entertain your children. Your private guide will show you Paestum, with simple and captivating anecdotes for children visiting the imposing temples and the museum with its’ well-known Tomb of the Diver, a rare example of a painted Greek tomb.
- Moreover, you will have lunch in a cheese factory nearby, where together with your children, you will have the opportunity to approach and photograph the famous buffaloes of Paestum, the typical cattle of the territory. This certainly will be a memorable time for adults and children.
More Details about this tour:
The meeting with our chauffeur will take place at the port of call of your ship (Salerno, Naples, Amalfi or Sorrento) or at your hotel, at whatever time you decide. Either by limousine or minivan you will reach Paestum, the well-known archeological site, where you will meet our English speaking archaeological private guide (just for you). In a couple of hours ( however you can also reduce the duration of the tour) you will visit the temples and the nearby museum. After that, with your driver, you will go visit a buffalo mozzarella farm where you will have the opportunity to enjoy freshly made specialties (lunch not included). Also exciting, will be the visit of the farm with breeding of buffaloes. After this point you will return to the ship or to your accommodation.
The Temples of Paestum
The great wonders of the archaeological area, are the three Doric temples, among the best preserved of antiquity, which rise imposingly on the flat front of the sea: the so called Temple of Neptune, the so called Basilica and the so called Temple of Ceres. The first two were actually linked to the worship of the goddess Hera, and the third, located in the north, was linked to the cult of the goddess Athena.
National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
- The museum locals have an important collection of artifacts found in the areas’ surroundings of Paestum, which are the first funerary objects from Lucan necropolis. There are countless pots, weapons and painted tombstones.
- The most famous is the so-called Tomb of the Diver ( 475 BC ), a unique example of Greek painting of the classical age and the Magna Greece with a symbolic representation of the transition from life to death.
- Considerable as important is the series of fresco tombs, dating back to the Lucan period of the city.
In the museum there are also metopes cycles from the mouth of the Sele river.
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