CAMPANIA

Overlooking the Golfo di Napoli Vesuvio which watches over the most fertile plain in Italy, bathed by the Tyrrhenian Sea and from Gulf of SalernoCampania is a region of intense beauty, vibrant life, and a history spanning three thousand years. It is the land of Naples—the most humane, the most chaotic, the most hospitable, and the most moving city in Italy—of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of 79 AD and remarkably preserved under the ash, of Paestum with its Greek temples that still amaze today with their perfection. It is the Amalfi Coast and the Sorrento Peninsula, the Royal Palace of Caserta and the Cilento, the islands of Capri and Ischia. A region that leaves no one indifferent, that envelops and overwhelms with its scents, its colors, and its overflowing vitality.

Beaches and islands

The Amalfi Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, is among the most famous and photographed coastal landscapes in the world: villages like Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, and Cetara perch on limestone cliffs overlooking the sea, amidst enormous lemon trees, purple bougainvillea, and deep blue waters. The island of Capri, with its Blue Grotto where light filters underwater creating an unreal cerulean glow, and the Faraglioni rocks rising from the sea like rocky sentinels, has been a symbol of Mediterranean elegance for centuries. Ischia, the green island with its thermal gardens like La Mortella Gardens and the beaches of Citara and Maronti, and Procida, the smallest of the Phlegraean Islands, with its pastel colors and fishing nets, complete an archipelago of incomparable beauty.

Landscapes

The Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park is the green lung of Campania: a vast and little-explored territory where the medieval villages of Castellabate, Ascea, Palinuro, and Pisciotta unfold across terraced hills covered in olive groves, while the Pertosa-Auletta Caves—traversed by an underground river by boat—and the Castelcivita Caves offer subterranean adventures. Vesuvius, an active volcano dominating the Gulf of Naples, is a must-see excursion: the crater and the Monti Somma trail reveal fascinating volcanic landscapes. The Phlegraean Fields west of Naples, with the Solfatara and Lake Averno—the gateway to the underworld in classical mythology—and the amphitheater of Pozzuoli, form one of the most extraordinary active volcanic landscapes in the world, where the earth still boils beneath your feet.