Seven nights across two coasts — the Sorrentine shore and the Itria Valley — joined by the new direct train and travelled entirely in private.
Your driver meets you at Naples airport and follows the bay south to Sorrento, the town balanced on its tufa cliffs above the water. After settling into your hotel, the afternoon is yours: a walk through lemon-scented lanes to Piazza Tasso, an aperitivo watching the light soften over the Marina Grande, and an unhurried first dinner. No schedule tonight — only the sea, and the promise of the days ahead.
Overnight · SorrentoA private boat waits at the marina to carry you across to Capri. You circle the island slowly — the Faraglioni rising from the water, sea caves glowing turquoise, quiet coves where you can swim before the day-trippers arrive. Ashore, ride up to Anacapri or linger over lunch above the harbour. By late afternoon you return to Sorrento by sea, salt on your skin and the coast turning gold.
Overnight · SorrentoLate in the day, when the light is at its best and the roads have quietened, you set out along the Amalfi Coast. Positano tumbles toward the sea; Amalfi's cathedral catches the last sun. You climb to Ravello, suspended between garden and sky, for dinner as the coast dissolves into dusk below. This is the Amalfitana as it should be seen — without the midday crowds, at the pace of the evening.
Overnight · SorrentoAfter a last morning in Sorrento, you transfer to Naples for the new direct train to Bari — a smooth crossing of the peninsula that replaces a long day's drive with a few restful hours. In Bari your driver is waiting to bring you into the Itria Valley, a landscape of dry-stone walls, olive groves and conical trulli. Tonight you settle into a masseria, the working farmhouse-estate that becomes your base.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaToday you cross into Basilicata to Matera, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. Your guide leads you through the Sassi — the ancient cave-dwellings carved into the ravine, once abandoned, now quietly reborn. You step inside rock churches painted with faded frescoes, and look out over a canyon that could be biblical. Lunch is local and unhurried before you return to the green calm of the Itria Valley.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaA slower day among the whitewashed towns of the valley. You wander Locorotondo and Cisternino, their circular lanes hung with flowers, and stop at a dairy where a cheesemaker shows you how burrata is made — the mozzarella pulled by hand, the cream folded inside while still warm. You taste it minutes old, with local bread and oil. The afternoon leaves room for the estate's pleasures: a pool, a garden, a glass of Primitivo.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaDown to the Adriatic at Polignano a Mare, a town built on a limestone cliff above impossibly clear water. A private boat takes you along the coast to sea caves reachable only from the water, with time to swim in coves the colour of glass. You come ashore for a long lunch by the sea — fresh fish, cold wine, no hurry. A fitting last full day, spent entirely on the water and the shore.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaA final Puglian breakfast before your driver takes you to Bari airport for your onward flight. You leave with two seas behind you — the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic — and the quiet satisfaction of having crossed the south slowly, by boat, by rail and on foot, from the lemon groves of Sorrento to the olive country of the Itria Valley. The new direct line made the distance feel like no distance at all.
Fly home from BariThis is a sample programme — fully private and ready to tailor around your clients' dates, pace and taste. Arrivals into Naples, departures from Bari.
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