POMPEII AND THE AMALFI COAST TOUR WITH AN ARCHAEOLOGIST / HISTORIAN
Private Tour
(for up to 6 people)
Minivan with driver + guide
Tour Duration
8/9 Hours
Tour Availability
All year long
Meeting Point
By your cruiseship or accommodation
Photo Gallery
Skip the line Pompeii tour. We will buy Pompeii entrance tickets for you so you don’t waste time queuing to buy them at the beginning of the tour.
Pompeii guided tour
What makes this guided tour of Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast so special?
This guided tour is a great combination of art and Nature: Pompeii is one of the most famous Roman archaeological sites in the world and the Amalfi Coast, with the beauty of its nature, enchants any visitor.
Having an English-speaking local archaeologist as private tour guide throughout a day offers the chance to make the most of your “cultural experience” for his scientific knowledge (in Pompeii) and because he is from this area (on the Amalfi Coast). In addition he is an historian: Amalfi was the oldest maritime Republic in Italy.
Our flexibility is total: our program can be modified in any way to meet your needs.
Why should you choose this tour ?
- Having an archaeologist and historian as a private tour guide in Pompeii and on Amalfi Coast is certainly a great value added.
- Having a private guide, an English speaking driver and a minivan just for you allows you to maximize the time available.
- We have been organizing guided tours for over 25 years and we know well the area where we live.
More Details about this tour:
We’ll meet (with our English-speaking driver and his Mercedes minivan) by your hotel or cruise ship. Head straight to the Amalfi Coast for reaching Positano for first – 1h of free time. After that, we’ll head to Amalfi for exploring the oldest Maritime Republic of Italy – 1h of free time. After that, we’ll reach Ravello for a quick optional guided tour of Villa Rufolo – 1h of free time. Later, from Ravello our driver will take us to Pompeii for a quick snack). In Pompeii you’ll have a two-hour tour with me. Back to your hotel or cruise ship.
Few words about Amalfi:
According to the legend, Amalfi was founded in the IV century by some Romans on their way to Constantinople, who were shipwrecked in Ragusa and, on their return, stopped near Palinuro where they founded “Melphi” (therefore they were called “Melphitani”); later they went to Eboli, then to the safest place on the Salerno coast where they founded Amalfi (from A-Melphis). However, the discovery of marble fragments and Roman clay in the surroundings would suggest that the locality was inhabited since Imperial times, and in any case Amalfi appears in official documents only around the century VIII, when the poverty of the mountainous soil had already pushed its inhabitants towards the sea. After the victory by Narsete over the Goths (553) Amalfi became part of the Byzantine Duchy of Naples.
Towards the 11th century the Republic of Amalfi had reached the pinnacle of its power. Rich and populated, it engaged in very active trades with the East from which it imported spices, perfumes, canvases, precious fabrics, carpets; Amalfi had warehouses in Constantinople, Laodicea, Beirut, Jaffa, Tripoli di Syria, Cyprus, Alexandria, Ptolemais. The Amalfitans also built places of worship and hospices in Jerusalem: such as the hospital and the church of S. Giovanni l’Elemosiniere (1020), where Gerardo Sasso would have founded the “Order of the Spedalieri” or “of S. Giovanni”, who became the “Knights of Rhodes” and therefore “Knights of Malta”. The maritime laws of the Republic, the famous “Tables of Amalfi” constituted then and for centuries the code of commerce for the whole Mediterranean.
The decline of Amalfi was determined, after the 11th century, by its occupation by Guaimario, 4th Prince of Salerno and the Normans: they took possession of the duchies of Amalfi and Sorrento (1039). After various events, the decline of Amalfi, mainly due to the loss of its freedom, became inexorable.