All itinerariesNaples and the Amalfi Coast in 6 Days — Buried Cities, Then the Sea
Six days on one volcano's worth of Italy: three nights in Naples for the buried cities, then two on the Amalfi Coast, without a car.
≈ €417 per person
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Six days on one volcano's worth of Italy: three nights in Naples, then two on the Amalfi Coast, moving by commuter train, minibus, ferry and coast-road bus rather than by car. The order is the argument. Naples comes first because the National Archaeological Museum holds almost everything worth seeing that was lifted out of Pompeii and Herculaneum, so the frescoes and the bronzes go into your head on day 2 and the bare rooms they came out of make sense on days 3 and 4. Then the coast the same eruption built: a hike along the cliff between Agerola and Nocelle, a paper mill in a ravine, and two gardens above Ravello. Capri is deliberately not here. It needs a day of its own and it is the one place on this coast that gets worse the more time you give it in a rushed schedule. Two things fix the calendar. Start on a Thursday or a Friday, because both Naples days depend on museums that close on Tuesday and Wednesday: the archaeological museum and the Sansevero Chapel shut Tuesdays, and the San Gennaro catacombs and the Fontanelle ossuary shut Wednesdays. And run it between April and October, because the Sorrento and Positano ferries this itinerary uses do not sail outside that window and the cliff path is only reliably open April to November. Roughly 420 euros a head covers every ticket, every fare on the ground and every listed meal; beds and flights are on top, and beds are where the Amalfi half gets expensive, which is why the band here is a judgement about Campania rather than about the arithmetic.
Day by day
Day 1 — Naples centro storico: Sansevero, Caravaggio, and the city underneathNaples centro storico: Sansevero, Caravaggio, and the city underneath
Day 2 — Everything the eruption preserved, and the district built on its ashEverything the eruption preserved, and the district built on its ash
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Every venue was checked against current public sources — hours, prices, closures — before it was published. Walks and transit legs are not in the count.
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Anything with a kitchen or a ticket gate is verified individually: the official site where one exists, plus recent traveler reviews. Public squares, parks and viewpoints get an existence check. A venue we can’t confirm is flagged below rather than quietly kept, and the whole itinerary is re-checked on a cadence — past 12 months without one, the checked claim is dropped and the date above stops being a promise.