Sailing to Amalfi

Between 1371 and 1435, the Queen often went on holiday to this place. The Sovereign, known for her scandalous attitudes, is said to have loved to spend a long time in these waters in the company of her young lovers. The Bagni della Regina Giovanna are a treasure trove of history and house the remains of an ancient Roman villa, whose name was "Villa Pollio Felice", which stood right on the promontory of Capo di Sorrento. Dating back to the 1st century BC, the villa had an area of about thirty thousand square meters and was divided into two parts: the maritime domus and the villa immersed in the fields. Today of the structure, reachable from both land and sea, it is possible to visit only the ruins.

The Marina di Puolo marks the beginning of the Lubrense coast, is located halfway between Sorrento and Massa Lubrense and belongs to a small extent to the Municipality of Sorrento. It takes its name from the Roman Pollio Felice, an illustrious exponent of a noble family from Pozzuoli and owner of a villa whose ruins are still visible nearby, in the locality of Calcarella. The small village is mostly made up of fishermen's houses. The beach, with a view of Vesuvius, has a surface made mainly of pebbles and sand.

Punta Campanella is a promontory of Campania and a marine reserve established in 1997 (protected marine natural area Punta Campanella). It is located in the northern part of the Gulf of Salerno, and extends over an area of over 1500 hectares at sea, between the municipality of Massa Lubrense and the municipality of Positano (SA). The reserve protects about 40 km of coast and the sea in front of it. It is classified as a Specially Protected Area of Mediterranean Interest. The "Punta Campanella" Marine Protected Area is characterized by limestone cliffs that descend into the sea, creating rock walls that go down to 50 m or more in depth. At the foot of the cliffs, the underwater landscape is characterized by the muddy plain, also typical of the rest of the Gulf of Naples. The presence of cliffs overlooking the sea leaves little room for beaches and gentle submarine slopes, for which the photophilic local flora and fauna is very little present (limited to the first 5-10 m), while they also appear a few meters from the surface sciaphilous organisms that are usually found at greater depths. Among the sciaphilous plants present on the rocky bottoms of the Punta, the red algae (Peyssonnelia sp.), Some mesophiles (Mesophyllum sp.) And the Jania rubens stand out. Coralligens represent the most abundant population of the marine environment, covering the rocks in overlapping layers of different species. The typical species of the area was the red coral, but it was destroyed in the area by the wild fishing of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Li Galli is identified with the place where the sirens lived and bewitched the sailors in transit, causing them to be shipwrecked against the rocks. The mythology tells of two ships that managed to escape this sad fate: that of Ulysses, returning from the Trojan war, and that of the Argonauts. Li Galli have always exerted a great fascination, so much so as to make them coveted by many famous people. In 1924 the Russian choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine bought the archipelago, having a magnificent villa built on those ruins which the architect Le Corbusier further embellished. The property then passed to another famous Russian dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, who bought it in 1989: shortly after his death in 1993, the archipelago was sold to third parties. The archipelago is part of the Marine Protected Area of Punta Campanella.

Destination Amalfi, if you feel like it you can go down to visit it. Its foundation is traced back to the Romans. Starting from the 9th century, first (in chronological order) among the maritime republics, it rivaled Pisa, Venice and Genoa for control of the Mediterranean Sea. Amalfi reached its maximum splendor in the 11th century, after which a rapid decline began: in 1131 it was conquered by the Normans of Ruggiero II d'Altavilla, king of Sicily and then its domain included, among other things, the territories and castles of Guallo , Trivento, Capri, Ravello, Scala, Fratta, Gerula and Pogerula (Alessandro di Telese, De rebus gestis Rogerii Siciliae regis. L. II, chap. VIII-XI). In 1135 and 1137 it was sacked by the Pisans and then in 1343 a storm with a consequent tidal wave destroyed a large part of the city.

Furore is an Italian town in the province of Salerno in Campania. Since 1997, like the whole Amalfi Coast, it has become part of the UNESCO World Heritage. It is also part of the Club of the most beautiful villages in Italy and, in 2007, was awarded by the EDEN Project as an Emerging Rural Destination.

Once in Positano, if you feel like it, you can disembark on the beach of Fornillo, to reach the center of Positano and visit the typical shops

Stop in this magnificent beach located in front of the island of the Gauls. Crystal clear sea, posidonia and why not, with a little luck the chance to see some dolphins pass by.

Return to the port of Sorrento