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An old, weathered stone building with a small dome and arched openings sits on a terraced hillside with greenery.

Amalfi

2025 · Italy

CountriesItaly
Stages8

Route

Journal Notes (8)
2025 Amalfi 1 - Amalfi

General Amalfi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of southern Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno. The settlement occupies the terminal floor and the lower slopes of a steep ravine, the Valle dei Mulini, which opens onto the sea on the southern flan …

2025 Amalfi 2 - Pompei

General The ancient city of Pompeii lies on the southern flank of Mount Vesuvius, in the modern municipality of Pompei in the metropolitan city of Naples, Campania. The Roman town was built on a coastal lava plateau, about 30 m above sea level, created by eruptions of the volcano …

2025 Amalfi 3 - Paestum

General Paestum is the Latin name of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia, whose ruins lie on the coastal plain of the Sele river in the province of Salerno, Campania, about a kilometre from the present Tyrrhenian shoreline and some 90 km south of Naples. The city was founded on …

2025 Amalfi 4 - Positano

General Positano is a town and comune on the western part of the Amalfi Coast, in the province of Salerno, Campania. The settlement occupies a steep amphitheatre of slopes descending from the Monti Lattari to the Tyrrhenian Sea, where its pastel-coloured houses appear to cascade …

2025 Amalfi 5 - Napoli

General Naples (Napoli in Italian, Napule in the Neapolitan language) is the regional capital of Campania and the largest city of southern Italy. The comune has about 905,000 inhabitants (2026) within an area of 119 km², while the wider metropolitan city counts almost three milli …

2025 Amalfi 6 - Herculaneum

General Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town on the coast of the Bay of Naples, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, in what is now the comune of Ercolano in Campania. Smaller and wealthier than its neighbour Pompeii, the town occupied a narrow coastal terrace between the volcano and …

2025 Amalfi 7 - Oplontis

General Oplontis is the ancient name of a Roman settlement on the coast of the Bay of Naples, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and now lying beneath the modern town of Torre Annunziata, between Herculaneum and Pompeii. The excavated area comprises two very different Ro …

2025 Amalfi 8 - Villa Regina

General Villa Regina is a Roman farmhouse of the first century BC at Boscoreale, on the lower slopes of Vesuvius about a kilometre north of Pompeii, buried by the eruption of AD 79 and today the only villa of the district that survives in situ, open to visitors. The modern name B …