A gastronomic crossing of the south — mozzarella, street food, burrata and orecchiette — from the Bay of Naples to the Salento.
Your driver meets you at Naples airport and drives south to Sorrento, your base for four nights above the bay. The rest of the day is yours to settle in — a wander through the lemon-scented old town to Piazza Tasso, an aperitivo overlooking the Marina Grande, a first unhurried dinner by the water. A gentle, well-fed welcome to the south, and the beginning of a journey that follows its flavours from coast to coast.
Overnight · SorrentoA private boat carries you out to Capri. You round the island slowly — the Faraglioni stacks, sea caves glowing turquoise, coves quiet enough for a morning swim before the day-trippers arrive. Ashore there's time for the Piazzetta, a ride up to Anacapri, or a long lunch above the harbour. By late afternoon you return to Sorrento by sea, salt-cooled and unhurried, the coast turning gold in the lowering light.
Overnight · SorrentoSouth today to Paestum, where three Greek temples stand among the finest anywhere — older than much of Rome, honey-coloured, astonishingly complete. With a guide you walk the ancient city and its museum before the day turns to the table: a visit to a buffalo-mozzarella dairy on the plain, where you watch the curd stretched by hand and taste the cheese made that morning, still warm, with local bread. Antiquity and appetite in equal measure.
Overnight · SorrentoA day without a schedule, to enjoy Sorrento at your own pace. Sleep late and take a long breakfast; spend the morning by the hotel pool or down at the water. Wander the old town for its intarsia woodwork and lemon groves, or simply sit over a granita and watch the bay. Should you wish, we can arrange a spa afternoon, a private tasting or an hour by boat — but nothing today is required but rest.
Overnight · SorrentoThis morning you head into Naples for a walking food tour of the old capital of the south — the true home of pizza, the fried street snacks, the sfogliatella warm from the oven, the coffee dark and quick. Then, in the afternoon, you board the new direct train to Bari, crossing to the Adriatic side in a few easy hours. Your driver brings you into the Itria Valley, to a masseria set among the olives.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaA day among the valley's whitewashed hill-towns — the circular lanes of Locorotondo, the balconied streets of Cisternino, the baroque flourishes of Martina Franca — with time to wander, browse and take a long coffee in a shaded piazza. Between the towns lies the essential Puglian landscape: ancient olive trees, dry-stone walls, the trulli scattered across the fields. The afternoon leaves room for the masseria itself — its garden, its pool, its own good table.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaTo Bari and its old town, Bari Vecchia — a dense knot of lanes around the Basilica of San Nicola, where daily life spills onto the street. On a guided food tour you watch the local women make orecchiette by hand in their doorways, taste focaccia barese, panzerotti and the city's raw seafood, and learn how a port town eats. Lively, authentic and delicious, it is the Adriatic answer to the flavours of Naples.
Overnight · Valle d'ItriaSouth into the Salento to Lecce, the ‘Florence of the South,’ carved in golden stone into an exuberance of baroque — its churches, its Roman amphitheatre, its stone-lace balconies explored with a local guide. Then east to the sea at Otranto, Italy's easternmost town, with its ramparts, its Norman cathedral and the astonishing 12th-century floor mosaic within. A day of two treasures — one baroque and inland, one whitewashed above the Adriatic — before returning to the valley.
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 eaten your way across the south — the mozzarella of Paestum, the street food of Naples, the burrata, orecchiette and sea of Puglia — two coasts and two culinary worlds joined by the new direct line, and a journey measured out, from first plate to last, in flavours rather than miles.
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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