Panoramic Sorrento and Italian Riviera

Rejoice in the Campania region’s best with a tour of inspiring Sorrento, a visit to a wood-inlay workshop and a drive along the glorious coast. Drive to seaside Sorrento, an effervescent mix of Renaissance palazzi, Romanesque churches and charming pedestrian lanes radiating from one of the town’s bustling main squares, where you’ll enjoy a guided walking tour. You’re sure to appreciate Sorrento’s remarkable cliffside setting, which affords spectacular views of the Gulf of Naples. Attend a demonstration of intarsia, or wood inlay, a craft long associated with Sorrento, and applaud the resulting intricate, mosaic-like works of art, which are used to adorn furniture, wall panels and music boxes.

Rejoin your coach for a magnificent drive along the rugged coastline, which is dotted with olive groves and fragrant lemon and orange trees. With each twist and turn of the road, you’ll exult in the superb vistas unfolding before you. In the Gulf of Salerno, discern three small rocky islands called Li Galli, which were thought to be where the Sirens of Homeric myth lived. Returning via the Sorrentine Peninsula, you’ll pass through several hilltop villages and admire once ferocious and now serene Mount Vesuvius presiding over all.

• Wear casual, weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes.
• Bring a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen.