Private transfers in Campania

Capodichino is Campania’s only airport and the starting point of most trips in the region.

Napoli Centrale is the terminus of high-speed trains from Rome, Florence and Milan, and the hub from which every regional connection branches out.

Naples is a city you cross on foot but reach by car: the historic centre is a UNESCO site, the alleys are narrow and a restricted traffic zone covers much of the monumental area.

Naples’ port is where hydrofoils leave for Capri, Ischia and Procida and where cruise ships dock at the Stazione Marittima.

Molo Luise is the private berth inside the port of Naples: yachts and superyachts moor here, and tenders come ashore from boats lying at anchor.

Pozzuoli is the heart of the Phlegraean Fields, the volcanic area west of Naples with the Flavian Amphitheatre, the Rione Terra and still-active craters.

Herculaneum holds the best-preserved Roman town in Italy: smaller than Pompeii but with timber, fabric and upper floors still intact, sealed under eighteen metres of volcanic mud.

Pompeii is Italy’s most visited archaeological site: 44 hectares of Roman city frozen by the AD 79 eruption.

Castellammare di Stabia is the gateway to the Sorrentine peninsula: the motorway ends here and the coastal road around the gulf begins.

Marina di Stabia is one of the largest marinas on the Gulf of Naples: a sheltered basin at the foot of Monte Faito, with pontoons for boats of every size and full services ashore.

Vico Equense is the first village on the Sorrentine peninsula coming from Naples: a town on a tuff spur above the sea, famous for pizza by the metre and for the beaches of Marina di Equa and Marina di Vico.

Sorrento is the most practical base on the gulf: hydrofoils to Capri leave from here, as does the coast road to Amalfi and the Circumvesuviana train to Pompeii.

Positano is built vertically into a rock amphitheatre: pastel houses, staircases and a single one-way road descending to the beach.

Praiano is the Amalfi Coast without the crowds: a fishing village between Positano and Amalfi, with the San Gennaro square looking out to sea and the path down to Gavitella beach, the only one on the coast facing the sunset.

Amalfi gives the whole coast its name and is the only village with a real square and a harbour: the Cathedral of Sant’Andrea and its great staircase dominate the centre, while behind it opens the Valle dei Mulini with its old paper mills.

Ravello sits 350 metres above the coast, reachable only by a hairpin road climbing from Atrani.

Maiori has the longest shoreline on the Amalfi Coast — almost a kilometre of sand — and a flat seafront promenade, a rarity around here.

Minori is the quietest village on the eastern stretch of the Coast, with a first-century Roman maritime villa steps from the beach and a pastry tradition that makes it a fixed stop for anyone travelling with their palate.

Vietri sul Mare is the first village on the Coast coming from Salerno, and the easiest to reach: the SS163 begins here and the bends are not yet the impossible ones of Positano.

Salerno Costa d’Amalfi airport, at Pontecagnano, is the closest gateway to southern Campania: Salerno is about twenty minutes away, Paestum around half an hour, the Amalfi Coast just under an hour.

Salerno is the second gateway to the Amalfi Coast: it has a high-speed rail station, a port with seasonal ferries to Amalfi and Positano, and one of the finest seafront promenades in southern Italy.

Marina d’Arechi is Salerno’s marina: an artificial island linked to the shore by a bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava, with berths up to large yachts.

Paestum preserves three Doric temples from the 5th century BC among the best preserved anywhere — more intact than many in Greece.

Agropoli is the gateway to the Cilento National Park: a medieval village on a headland, with the Aragonese castle at the top and long beaches running south.

Caserta is home to the Bourbon Royal Palace, the largest royal residence in the world by volume, with a three-kilometre park culminating in the Great Waterfall and the English Garden.

Fiumicino is Italy’s main intercontinental gateway and, for many travellers, the real point of arrival for Campania.

Rome is the first or the last leg of many trips to Campania.