Pompeii Travel Tips

Pompeii is considered to be one of the few sites where an ancient city has been preserved in detail - everything from jars and tables to paintings and people were frozen in time, yielding an unprecedented opportunity to see how the people lived two thousand years ago. 

When visiting Italy, Pompeii is a must see. Here is a short list of Pompeii travel tips:

1. This is a walking site only. Note that the old roman stone roads can be quite exhausting to walk, especially in the heat of summer with loads of fellow tourists about. Everyone will be walking on cobblestones and uneven ground.

2. The temperature is between 71 and 77 F in the summer. Make sure to take plenty of water. There are water taps and some of them work so remember to keep your empty bottles for refilling.

3. It is advisable to wear good footwear, sunscreen and hats.

4. There is a lot to look at and it will probably take all day to see everything, so plan a day trip.

5. Buy a decent map of the site, or you will get lost in the small roads and need to walk back and forth which is quite exhausting. Free maps and info booklets are given away at the entrance (in several different languages). Visitors need to request them from the Info booth beside the ticket windows.

6. Audio guides, tour guides and tour guide books are also available for purchase or hire at the entrance. (Please note that on Celtic Tours Escorted Vacations, tours of Pompeii are guided, when included in travel package)

7. Don't miss the "Garden of the Fugitives" at the south-east side where plaster casts of several victims, the Villa of the Mysteries, and have a look at random villas, as sometimes even small side rooms have amazing frescoes (wall paintings).

Discover the ancient city of Pompeii with Celtic Tours. A guided tour of Pompeii is included on our new special departure tour: Rome and Sorrento Extravaganza Tour.

Alberobello and Trulli Dwellings

Alberobello, in the Puglia region on southern Italy, is a picturesque and fairy-tale like destination which makes an interesting daytrip destination of a pleasant base for a few days while traveling through Southern Italy. Famous for its trulli, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It is a featured stop on Celtic Tours new The Amazing South of Italy tour.

A trullo is a small dwelling built with the local limestone, thick dry-stone walls and a characteristic conical roof. Many trulli roofs are adorned with ancient symbols of their pagan inhabitants. Trulli were generally constructed as dwellings or storehouses and were traditionally built without any cement or mortar, thus avoiding taxation. Legend has it that trullo were built by peasants and when the tax collector came around, they quickly dismantle their house. The vast majority of trulli have one room under each conical roof, a multi-roomed trullo house has many cones representing each room.

Icons of the Puglia region, trulli dot the countryside. But nowhere are they as numerous as in the city of Alberobello. Take a stroll through the twisting and turning steets, lined with trulli, of Rione Monti, The streets are also filled with wine shops, artisanal shops and kitschy souvenir shops. Around the main tourist area, there are many little bars, snack-shops, restaraunts and pizzerias, some in trulli. There are also a handful of small museums. When visiting Alberobello, don’t miss the Chiesa Sant’Antonia: a giant trullo church.

Visit Alberobello and the fairy-tale like trulli on Celtic Tours new The Amazing South of Italy Vacation.

The Amazing South of Italy Vacation

Amazing South of Italy!

Join Celtic Tours as you journey through southern Italy and experience its rich scenery, art, culture, food and wine! Witness the breathtaking scenery of the Amalfi Coast, discover the ruins of Pompeii, and visit the stunning trulli village of Alberobello. Sail to enchanting Capri and sip coffee in the Piazza.

Your Celtic Tours Amazing South of Italy Tour Includes:

* Accommodation at 4 Star hotels
* Italian buffet Breakfast daily (no eggs)
* Return Transfer by private car/minibus and driver from/to the airport in Rome to hotel in Rome
* Four dinners and two lunches included
* Service charges and taxes included
* Ground transportation by deluxe motorcoach from Day 3 until day 7 (with the arrival at the hotel in Rome)
* Tour escort / Assistant beginning on day 3
* Sightseeing tours as per the itinerary
* Local guides (English - French - Spanish language) and entrance fees during the tour

Learn more about Celtic Tours newest vacation in Southern Italy

Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast

Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast

"Do you know the land where the lemons are in flower?

In the green leaves golden oranges shine

A quiet wind blows from the blue sky

Quiet is the myrtle, serene the laurel

Do you know it well?

There, there

I would like with you, my love, to go!"

J.W. Goethe

Sorrento, wedged on a ledge between the mountains and the Mediterranean, is an attractive resort of 20,000 residents. Spritzed by lemon and olive groves, this gateway to the Amalfi Coast has an unspoiled old quarter, a lively main shopping street and a spectacular cliffside setting.

Sorrento Peninsula has a landscape unique in the world, where low and high hills, deep valleys and majestic mountains alternate, where the Man’s work - who levelled even the most impervious areas, transforming them in the famous terraces degrading towards the sea, on which he cultivated orange and lemon trees, olive groves and vineyards - has been grandiose. These are the delight’s gardens that in springtime exhale a stirring scent of orange - blossom. The mild and dry climate for most part of the year makes Sorrento Peninsula the ideal destination in every season.

The Amalfi Coast, Italy (la Costiera Amalfi tana) is a breathtaking 35-mile stretch of mountainous coastline situated on the Sorrento peninsula, just south of Naples, in the region of Campania. Considered one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, it is characterized by very steep, rocky hillsides plunging dramatically into the Mediterranean Sea. Precariously perched on these hills are charming old fi shing villages. Around every turn of this “road of a thousand bends”, one catches a new view of the seaside more spectacular than the last. Across the water lies the Isle of Capri, or the Blue Island. The Isle of Capri is renowned the world over as an exclusive holiday destination.

Join Celtic Tours for an unforgettable Sorrento and Amalfi Coast Vacation

Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast

Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast!

The Amalfi Coast, Italy is considered one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. The Isle of Capri is renowned the world over as an exclusive holiday destination.


Your Sorrento and Amalfi Coast tour includes:

*Six nights accomodation in 4-star hotel in Sorrento.
*Ground transportation by deluxe motorcoach including airport transfers.
*English-speaking guide throughout.
*Italian buffet breakfast daily excluding the day of arrival.
*One welcome dinner + farewell dinner including wine and water.
*One farewell dinner at the Villa with drinks included.
*Four hotel dinners.
*Half-day guided tour in Pompeii including entrance fees.
*Sightseeing tours as per itinerary.
*Local taxes and tips (excluding tips to driver and guide).
*Celtic Tours flight bag and portfolio of travel documents.

Witness the breathtaking scenery of the Amalfi Coast, discover the ruins of Pompeii and sail to enchanting Capri on Celtic Tours Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast Vacation.