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Day Trips from Napoli

  • Rubber Boats

    Hands down our favorite way to spend a summer day is renting rubber boats. You can find multiple noleggio barche in the Campania region from Napoli to the Amalfi. I’m sharing our favorite places, but the possibilities are virtually endless! From Monte di Procida, you can circumnavigate the islands of Ischia and Procida; likewise, from…

  • Cascate di Carpinone

    I never did understand why TLC advised against chasing waterfalls. They are the most marvelous things. About an hour and a half drive from Naples, just inside the Molise region, is a tiny town called Carpinone, which hosts several cascate. In the middle of a hot Italian summer, nothing is more refreshing than dipping into…

  • Paestum, Bufula farm, Beach

    A perfect, educational day begins at a farm that offers inexpensive tours (5 Euro when we attended as a group) demonstrating the art and science of making the world renown Neopolitan Mozzarella di Bufula. Not only will you get to see the animals getting their massages and listening to Mozart in the barn (warning for…

  • Sorrento

    My dear friend introduced me to the wonder of Sorrento in April of 2022 and it has not ceased to delight me every time I visit. It is situated on the north side of the Sorrentine peninsula and is famed for its lemons, like the Amalfi coast on the southern side of the same peninsula.…

  • Royal Palace of Caserta and Casertavecchia

    The Royal Palace of Caserta is a marvel. Construction on the massive royal residence began in 1752 and took more than twenty years according to the website.  It’s beautiful and uncrowded. It’s hot and stuffy in the height of summer, but the rest of the year is a delight. It’s free to enter the first…