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Puglia & the Amalfi Coast

€1,720$1,953 / Per person

8 Days
8–14 Guests
Amalfi Coast, Puglia & Matera, Italy
4.8 (64 Reviews)

Most southern-Italy trips stop at the Amalfi Coast. We give it three days — enough for Positano and Ravello without the day-tripper crush — and then cross to the heel for the part that surprises people: conical trulli roofs at Alberobello, cliff-cut swimming at Polignano a Mare, and Matera, a city carved into a ravine and lived in continuously for nine thousand years.

Trip Highlights

  • Positano and Ravello, reached by boat rather than the coast road
  • The trulli district of Alberobello, a UNESCO site of conical stone roofs
  • Swimming off the cliffs at Polignano a Mare
  • Matera's Sassi — cave dwellings cut into a limestone ravine

Best months: April – June, September – October

Is the Amalfi Coast unbearable in high season?

In July and August, parts of it genuinely are. That is why this itinerary runs April to June and September to October only, why we move by boat instead of sitting on the coast road, and why we stay in Sorrento rather than in Positano itself.

How much walking is involved?

Included / Excluded

  • Seven nights including one in a converted trullo and one in the Sassi of Matera
  • Amalfi Coast boat day and all regional transfers
  • Olive-oil tasting and masseria lunch in the Itria valley
  • Guided walking tours in Amalfi, Alberobello and Matera
  • Local guide throughout and a welcome dinner
  • Flights into Naples and out of Bari
  • Travel insurance
  • Path of the Gods guided hike (optional)
  • Most lunches and evening meals

Tour Plan

Day 1 — Arrive Naples, transfer to the coast

Met at Naples and driven down to Sorrento. Evening walk and a welcome dinner looking across the bay to Vesuvius.

Day 2 — Positano and Amalfi by sea

Day 3 — Ravello and the Path of the Gods

Day 4 — Cross to Puglia

Day 5 — Itria valley — Locorotondo and Ostuni

Day 6 — Polignano a Mare

Day 7 — Matera

Day 8 — Departure

Location

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Guided in Italy

8–14 travellers

8 Days

Free date changes

Euro pricing, no fees

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