Paestum and a buffalo mozzarella farm: private tour from Sorrento

Introduction Paestum has three Doric temples standing almost intact in a field, and they were built around 550 BC: five centuries before the Colosseum. There’s no queue, no crowd control, and on a weekday in spring you can walk between them almost alone. Twenty minutes away, the Sele plain is where mozzarella di bufala campana […]
Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius: private tour from Sorrento

Introduction In AD 79 Vesuvius buried Pompeii under ash and Herculaneum under mud. The ash preserved a city; the mud preserved a neighbourhood so completely that the wooden beams and the doors are still there. Seeing both on the same day, with the volcano in between, is the only way the story makes sense. Done […]