Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius with Lunch and WineTasting Private Fullday from Rome

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Pass By: ItalyBestExcursions, Piazza Venezia, Rome Italy

Tour Details: Leave your accommodation in Rome in the morning, and hop inside your private vehicle with a professional English-speaking driver. On the way your driver will offer to you a Buffalo Mozzarella tasting in a very typical family farm in the Capua town countryside, the area is considered the fatherland of the Italian Buffalo Mozzarella! You will take pictures of the buffaloes too! Vesuvius Crater (tickets and alpine guide included): After lunch your driver will transport you to Mount Vesuvius, where you will be able to visit the volcano, which reaches an altitude of 4,203-feet (1,281-meters). From there the crater can be reached on foot by using a path that is 0.75-miles (1,200-meters) long that takes you to the summit of the volcano. Lunch included: Stop for lunch (included) at a local restaurant and winery on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius where you will have a great experience sampling their unique wines born in the shadow of the volcano. 2 hours Pompeii Ruins (tickets and local licensed guide included): Visiting Pompeii is not like a museum , is as live again in an ancient roman commercial town of 3 Km. Buildings, temples, shops catched in the time of the eruption. Pompeii was an ancient Roman town near modern Naples, where the common people went on holidays at the time of the ancient Rome. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many ancient towns in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. At the end of your tour the driver will take you back to your accommodation in Rome.
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The Restaurant: You will stop for lunch in a local restaurant/winery on the slopes of the volcano: it is located between Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius' volcanic crater in Italy's Vesuvius National Park, approximately 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Pompeii. The winery is perfectly located for a stop during a day trip of Pompeii and the volcanic crater on top of Mount Vesuvius. All guests visiting the winery are welcome to stay for an "Italian-style" tasting, held on the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. Tasting menu includes: • Antipasto appetizer with local products: salami, provolone cheese, 'casatiello' (a savory bread), and bruschetta with heirloom Piennolo tomatoes on bread baked in a wood-burning oven, paired with Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio Bianco DOP (100% Caprettone), Rosato (100% Piedirosso), and Rosso (100% Piedirosso). • Spaghetti made with durum wheat flour and tossed with a sauce made from heirloom Piennolo tomatoes and basil, paired with Lacryma Christi Riserva (80% Piedirosso and 20% Aglianico, aged in French oak barrels for 18 - 24 months). • Pastiera Napolitana, a traditional dessert featuring sweetened ricotta, candied fruit, and boiled wheat berries, paired with Capafresca Spumante Rosato (100% Aglianico) and Acquavite di Albicocche del Vesuvio, an apricot distillate.

Stop At: Vesuvius National Park, Via Palazzo del Principe, 80044 Ottaviano Italy

Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae


Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Pompeii - Archaeological Area., Porta Marina Superiore (Via Villa dei Misteri) Piazza Immacolata, Piazza Porta Marina inf., 80045 Pompeii Italy

Pompeii is one of the most significant proofs of Roman civilization and, like an open book, provides outstanding information on the art, customs, trades and everyday life of the past.

Duration: 2 hours