From the Eternal City to the two seas of the south: Rome, the Sorrentine coast and the Itria Valley, strung together by high-speed rail.
Your driver meets you at Rome's airport and brings you into the city to your hotel. The rest of the day unfolds at your own pace — a first walk through the centro storico, a coffee taken standing at the bar like a Roman, an evening stroll to a floodlit piazza or fountain. Rome asks nothing of you tonight but to be wandered. Dinner is yours to choose, somewhere the neighbourhood eats rather than the guidebooks.
Overnight · RomeWith a private guide you enter the Colosseum, then the Forum and Palatine — the civic heart of the ancient city, walked at your own rhythm and told as a story rather than a list of dates. In the afternoon you trade antiquity for the kitchen: a hands-on cooking class where you make fresh pasta and a classic Roman sauce — cacio e pepe, perhaps — then sit down to eat your own work with wine.
Overnight · RomeThis morning you follow the Appia Antica, the great consular road paved two thousand years ago, past tombs, catacombs and umbrella pines — an ancient quiet just beyond the city walls. In the afternoon a golf-cart lets you cover the historic centre with ease: the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps linked without the fatigue of the cobblestones. A relaxed, wide-angle portrait of Rome, ancient and baroque at once.
Overnight · RomeYou leave Rome by high-speed train, reaching Naples in little over an hour. Your driver is waiting, and rather than heading straight to the coast you stop at Pompeii for a private guided visit — the streets, houses and frescoes of the city sealed by Vesuvius in 79 AD. From there a short drive brings you to Sorrento, poised on its cliffs above the bay, where you settle in for three nights by the sea.
Overnight · SorrentoA private boat carries you across to Capri. You circle the island at leisure — the Faraglioni rising sheer from the water, grottoes glowing blue, quiet coves for a morning swim before the crowds. Ashore, there's time to ride up to Anacapri, browse the Piazzetta, or take a long lunch above the harbour. By late afternoon you return to Sorrento by sea, the coast burnished gold as the day softens toward evening.
Overnight · SorrentoThe day is free until the afternoon, when you set out along the Amalfi Coast to Positano, its pastel houses cascading toward the sea, with time to wander down to the beach or browse its boutiques. As the light lengthens you climb to Ravello, high in its gardens above the water, for dinner as the coast fades into dusk far below. The Amalfitana at its finest hour — golden, unhurried, and yours.
Overnight · SorrentoAfter your last Sorrentine morning, you transfer to Naples for the new direct train to Bari, crossing the peninsula in a few restful hours instead of a long day's drive. In Bari your driver waits to bring you into the Itria Valley — a landscape of olive groves, dry-stone walls and the conical roofs of the trulli. Tonight you settle into a masseria, the historic farmhouse-estate that becomes your base for three nights.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaA day exploring the valley's whitewashed towns — the circular lanes of Locorotondo, the balconies of Cisternino, the baroque grace of Martina Franca. You visit a local winery to taste the wines of the region, from crisp whites to the deep, sun-warmed Primitivo, poured by the people who make them. The rest of the day is unhurried: the estate's garden and pool, the slow rhythm of the countryside, an aperitivo as the light fades.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaTo Ostuni, the White City, its dazzling lanes spiralling up to a Gothic cathedral above a sea of olive trees. Then down to the Adriatic at Polignano a Mare, built on a cliff above water of astonishing clarity. Between them, a proper Puglian lunch: burrata still cool from the dairy, orecchiette with cime di rapa, local bread and oil, wine of the region. A day built around the two great pleasures — landscape and table.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaA final Puglian breakfast at the masseria before your driver takes you to Bari airport for your onward flight. You leave having travelled the length of the south by rail — from the marble and ruins of Rome, through the Bay of Naples and the Amalfi Coast, to the olive country and white towns of Puglia — three worlds joined seamlessly by the high-speed line and the new direct link to Bari.
Fly home from BariThis is a sample programme — fully private and ready to tailor around your clients' dates, pace and taste. Arrivals into Rome (Fiumicino), departures from Bari.
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