Free Time Plans

Our trip offers a nice balance of programmed tours and activities as well as free time to explore on your own.  I'm a researcher and planner; I like to have a sense of what my options are but let the selection wait until I need to make a decision.

Here is an overview of our free time (note that the times are approximate):

Day	Location	Time (all approximate)
Sunday	Sorrento	4 hours (1 – 5 PM)
Monday	Amalfi	1.75 hours (11:45 AM – 1:30 PM)
	Ravello	1 hour (3 – 4 PM)
Tuesday	Naples	2 hours (3 – 5 PM)
Wednesday	Anacapri	3.25 hours (10:45 AM – 2 PM)
	Capri	1.25 hours (3 – 4:15 PM)
Thursday	Sorrento	All day
Friday	Rome	Evening
Saturday	Rome	All day

Remember that our free time on Sunday (in Sorrento), Monday (in Amalfi), and Wednesday (in Anacapri) is also time to eat lunch.

Here are some thoughts about possible ways to fill all that free time, besides eating and shopping:

Sorrento

* Cathedral (Duomo)

* Museum of Inlaid Wood (Museo Bottega della Tarsialigna)

* Decorative Art Museum (Museo Correale di Terranova)

* Hike up to Sant'Agata sui due Golfi

* Cloister of San Francesco (Chiostro di San Francesco)

 

 

Amalfi

* Cathedral (Duomo di Sant' Andrea) and cloister (Chiostro del Paradiso)

* Civic museum (Musco Civico)

* Paper museum (Museo della Carta)

* Waterfront

 

 

Ravello

* Duomo (San Pantaleone)

* Villa Rufolo (gardens)

* Belvedere Principessa di Piemonte

* Villa Cimbrone (gardens)

* San Giovanni del Toro

 

 

Naples

* Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale)

* Civic Museum (Castel Nuovo)

* San Carlo Opera House

* Santa Chiara church and cloisters

* Gesu Nuovo

* San Lorenzo Maggiore excavations

* San Gregorio Armeno

* Via San Gregorio presepi shops

* Cappella Sansevero (Veiled Christ)

* San Domenico Maggiore

* Cathedral (Duomo di San Gennaro)

* Pio Monte della Misericordia

* Archeology Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale)

* Spaccanapoli

* Underground Naples

* Capodimonte art museum (Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte)

* Catacombs of San Gennaro

* Monastery and museum of San Martino (Certosa & Museo Nazionale di San Martino)

* Villa Floridiana ceramics museum (Mueso Nazionale della Ceramica)

Sorrento Free Day (Thursday)
* Positano (we will not be able to stop there with the bus on Monday)
* Climb Vesuvio
* Revisit Pompei
* Herculeneum (Ercolano)
* Paestum
* Buffalo mozzarella factory
* Naples
* Vietri sul Mare