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I'm considering a quick loop from Naples Port. I'm thinking ... 1) Naples to Pompeii via train, 2) two hours at Pompeii, 3) Pompeii to Salerno via train, and 4) Salerno to Naples Port via the Amalfi coast by boat. This will be on November 9, so I'm concerned about the availability of boats from Salerno to Naples Port.
Are boats available in the afternoon from Salerno? Any suggestions or tips?
I dont know but i was wondering if u have now done it if u could give me any information
thanks
I just returned from a cruise and here's what I did on Nov 10, 2006: (see my suggestion below)
1) I took a tram from the Naples port entrance to the Circumvesuviana train station (buy a 1 euro bus/tram ticket at the snack bar in front of the port entrance - near the street - and take tram #1 from the little "island" in the middle of the street).
2) Took a train from the Circumvesuviana station to Pompeii (less than an hour ride). Bought ticket at the counter for about 3.20 euro for round-trip to Sorrento.
3) After visiting Pompeii for 3 hrs, I took the same train (same platform) to Sorrento. Sorrento was very nice.
4) From the Piazza Tasso in Sorrento (main square), I took the steps down to the port and caught a hydrofoil boat directly back to the Naples pier for 9 euro. It's a 30 minute boat ride from Sorrento to Naples and it drops you very close to the cruise ships. It ran at 2:10pm and 4:25pm.
SUGGESTION to make this a more pleasant trip: avoid Naples altogether and take a hydrofoil from Naples port to Sorrento, travel round-trip from Sorrento to Pompeii, and take the hydrofoil back to Naples from Sorrento. The hydrofoil ticket office is right at Beverello. It's a real hassle to get through Naples on the tram and train. There is a gauntlet of aggressive taxi drivers wanting to take you on excursions and they yelled at us when we told them we were taking the tram.
What surprized me a lot while walking around Naples was to find these stalls selling boiled beef snouts and tripes like candies or pop-corn.
That's why I took a picture of it .... I like it because, in my opinion, is very folkloristic.
Once we got used to the system we found the buses an interesting, if slow, way to travel around the city. I never tired of watching the traffic here – the way even the youngest scooter-drivers weave effortlessly if precariously round the cars and other large vehicles; the way pedestrians step out just knowing that the traffic will somehow magically halt for them; the drivers we saw reading newspapers, drinking coffee and even taking down notes from a phone-call while at the wheel.
Bus travel is cheap, or seemed so to us, used to London transport costs. A single journey, when we were there in November 2007, costed just €1 for up to 90 minutes continuous travel (i.e. including a change of buses if needed). You need to buy your ticket in advance from a Tabacchi – look for the letter T on a shop sign. We found one just a few doors from our hotel in Via Francesco Saverio Correra and would pop in each morning to buy the number we thought we would need for the day.
You’re supposed to enter the bus from the doors at the front or rear and leave the central door for those exiting, but most people seemed happy to ignore this, especially when the bus was crowded and moving around inside difficult. Once on board you need to validate your ticket in the machines – then settle back, or hang on, for the ride!
Probably the greatest view you can get is from a fortress north of the city center. Ask someone to help you find a way, since it's not too easy. Take the furnicular (1 EUR), walk a bit to the south, enter the fort & enjoy the view! Note: you have to pay a fee to enter!
This museum is in the wonderful Certosa (Carthusian Monastery) of San Martino, and is dedicated to Neapolitan history and culture. There is a very interesting section on nativity scenes which displays examples from the 18th and 19th centuries. The monumental sized “Cuciniello” nativity scene is well worth a visit.
This Church, that gives its name to the Square , was previously an exclusive palace of Salerno Princes. For this reason its external façade and its internal places are very different. The first one is in ashlar work , formed by “piperno” blocks carved in diamond shape (this is the original part); the second was rebuilt in Baroque style with a great pictorial and sculptural decoration. The author who realized the frescoes is Luca Giordano. The piperno’s blocks were worked by “Maestri pipernieri” belonging to an influental and secret corporation. Every block has a stange symbol (see the tip about the legend of Gesù Nuovo in "off the beaten path"). The particularity of this church is the difference between the two parts : when you are outside , you’ll never imagine to overstep a door and found a sumptuosity that makes you amazed and enjoyably surprised.
HOURS:
06,45-13,00/16,00-19,30
NOTE:
To visit the Oratory ask the door keeper of the school (Liceo) in n. 1 Gesù Nuovo square
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Q: Train from sorrento to naples and then to rome "Can someone please tell me when arriving from sorrento to Naples by train will I be coming in on the lowest level of the train..."
A: "Very easy. There are signs to guide you. As for time between trains it depends on te departure of your train to Rome. Te walk is under 3-5 minutes."
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