POSITANO PRIVATE TOUR

Your driver will pick you up at your hotel in Sorrento, drive to Positano for half an hour, stop for pictures at the most important scenery spots, stop in Positano for about 4 hours including lunchtime (having lunch wherever you want or it also can depend on what kind of food you prefer). You will be able to visit the ancient fishermen village of Positano that became one of the most elegant and suggestive villages of the Amalfi Coast having a pyramid form called “living nativity”. Its houses have various pastel colours and seems to be suspended between sky and sea. Positano, hailed by writers and poets, reproduced innumerable times on canvas, remains mostly known in the most ancient phases of its existence. Many are the myths that tell its origin. One of these says that Positano was founded by the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, because of his love for the nymph Pasitea.

Positano was already inhabited in the Upper Paleolithic as has been ascertained by findings of terrestrial and marine molluscs and of the stone with an animal head engraved in the cave La Porta, the Mezzogiorno cave and the Erica cave. In front of Positano there are three islands that have always been considered the mythical abode of the bewitching sirens who with their songs attracted sailors and then killed them. Along the streets of Positano you could see the various little shops selling typical food or clothes of linen, canpa combined with crochet embroidery. This particular webbing created a unique style of clothes in the world. Every year this style is renewed respecting its tradition and creating the “Positano griffe” or “Moda Positano”. Moreover you could visit the little shops of original leather sandals created on the spot and custome made, embroided with jewellery stones, on request. Walking along the little streets and famous stairs you will be astonished by the beauty of Positano colours, boutiques and typical eno-gastronomy and pottery products shops. Don’t forget that in Positano you will find some villas of the Roman period, because it was very famous as a resort were they practised “otium” (leisure). These villas have become hotels but their roman- baroque style still exists: Villa Murat is a typical example of this. Almost at the end of your path along Positano you will find the XIIIth century Church of Santa Maria Assunta, patroness of the village. It is enhanced by a Byzantine coloured majolica dome. If you want you can go down to the main beach of “Marina Grande” and have a walk on the sand and fine peebles. There, you can find seafood specialties restaurants, ice cream parlors and bathing establishments. From here you can also reach the beach of Fornillo, walking for 15 minutes along a hill path or by boat. This unique beach is hidden, less populated but really beautiful, closed in a suggestive scenery by two towers (the Fornillo and Trasita towers, ancient sighting towers against the Saracens attacks from the sea). Your way back from “Marina Grande”, walking will last 20 minutes, till the parking where your Mercedes van or limousine car was parked.

Your private driver will drive back to Sorrento in about half an hour.
*Don’t forget that you have also the possibility to practise trekking through an alternative path called “The Path of the Gods”. If you choose this option, you will be driven to Bomerano in Amalfi and you’ll hike through this amazing path reaching Nocelle on Positano hills. Here your driver will be waiting for you and will be at your disposal to drive you where you can have your lunch in a farming hill house that will serve you delicious meat, hand-made pasta, vegetables, fruits, desserts, local wine, organic food mama’s cooked to a very competitive rate.

After lunch your private driver will drive back to Sorrento in about half an hour.

Your English speaking personal driver should be glad to recommend the best for you, as each customer, for us, is unique and different!

**This kind of tour lasts 7 hours so the rate can change.