Hello everybody, my name is Francesco. I'm a licensed tourist guide for the Campania Region.
Local history is my great passion since I was a child and I feel lucky to have grown up in Torre Annunziata, a town by the sea in the middle of the amazing Bay of Naples, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius and just 5 minutes away from the ruins of Pompeii.
I've been working giving tours for 18 years.
After my studies, initially, I collaborated with some Mt. Vesuvius volcano guides, as a courier on a private bus with a private driver to pick up guests from different hotels and to lead them to the crater for a tour of the volcano. Later, I got the license as a local tourist guide and since then, every day I'm in a different fantastic place of the Campania Region: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri, Amalfi Coast, Mt. Vesuvius, Sorrento, Naples, Paestum, Phlegraean Fields.
I have had a lot of experience leading shore excursions for cruise passengers and leading tours for families, couples and small parties.
My tours are easy. I give all the historical, artistic and archaeological details but also information about food, customs and way of life of the locals. I also love telling anecdotes and funny stories related to the local history and traditions.
Of course, you know that Italy is the country of the good food. Campania Region is popular for its specialities and no doubt everywhere we go I can recommend you a place "for locals" to let you taste the most typical delicacies. Also, I collaborate with local food and beverage producers to arrange demonstrations and cooking classes (for pasta, mozzarella cheese, wine, coffee, pizza, pastries, ice cream, olive oil, limoncello, etc. ).
It's possible to customize the tours to your needs. Please, send me a message to let me know your requests and we can build up your tours together.
I would like you will experience your tours in the Bay of Naples with me.
Look forward to meeting you.

Licensed Tourist Guide of Campania Region, Italy

Master of European Studies, Camera di Commercio Belgo-Italiana and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Master Degree in Business Economics, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope", Italy

I am not a driver. I can accompany you in your vehicle or I can arrange for a separate car and driver.

Capri is a small island a few miles off the coastline of the Campania Region. Its fame is due to the beauty of the landscape and the glamourous life.

The island has been being a popular spot to relax since the ancient times. From Roman emperors to Hollywood stars, a number of influential personalities are linked to the history of the island and fueled the myth of Capri.

It's a place that I love since I was a little child. My family and I were used to spend in Capri almost all the weekends. I know all the corners of the island, and I look forward to letting you discover this wonderful place. We'll walk down the tiny streets teeming with the crafts workshops and the boutiques where Jacqueline Kennedy went shopping, we'll enter the grottoes that the emperor Tiberius transformed into his own personal swimming pools and we'll tour all the awesome spots that inspired artists and writers.

Trust in my local and expert knowledge, years of guiding and joy to show you my hometown!

Capri, the pearl of the Mediterranean

Amalfi Coast and Pompeii are the best you can see in a day in South Italy:

A breathtaking landscape. A piece of paradise where the grey of the mountain's limestone and the green of the vegetation meet the blue of the Mediterranean. Little villages by the sea. That and much more is the Amalfi Coast. All the area has been added by the Unesco to the list of the World Heritage Sites as a cultural landscape. You can experience beauty and history in every corner of the fantastic Amalfi Coast road, carved in the side of the mountain and overlooking the sea and in all the villages.

The most popular town of the Amalfi Coast is Positano, a coloured, scenic and exclusive sea village, the best place for shopping and eating seafood in Amalfi Coast.

We'll make a travel back in time to ancient Pompeii, the most important archeological site in the world. An entire city completely preserved as it was in AD 79 when a tremendous eruption of the volcano Mt. Vesuvius buried it under a 25 feet deep layer of ash and lapilli.

Amalfi Coast and Pompeii shore excursion

In AD 79 a tremendous eruption of the volcano Mt. Vesuvius buried Pompeii, a Roman city, under a 25 feet deep layer of ash and lapilli.

Today, Pompeii is the most important archaeological site in the world. Nowhere but Pompeii you can walk so ancient streets full of traces of life. You can enter the houses where people lived, the temples where they prayed, the places where they went for entertainment. You can see the tracks of their carts on the surface of streets, the piping of the public running water supply, the "petrified" bodies of the victims of the eruption.

Mt. Vesuvius, the volcano that destroyed Pompeii, is still active and it is considered, today, the most dangerous volcano in the world. Mt. Vesuvius is also one of the most visited volcano in the world. From the top it's possible to look in the depth of the crater and to admire all the bay of Naples.

A tour of Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius is the best way to enjoy nature and history in the bay of Naples. I'll give all the historical details!

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