Today we will take a long and deep look at the city’s cuisine, it’s markets and the street life that revolves around it.

We’ll get back in the kitchen and meet chefs of classic Neapolitan pastries, such as the baba au rum and sfogliatelle, and later, in a street market, we will meet third generation bakers of a local bread in their family bakery. Along the way we will have salt cod and street food and we will stop into the studio of the city’s last market sign painter.

We’ll finish with pizza at what is probably the city’s- if not the world’s- best pizzeria.

On this day we will explore the religious practices and Neapolitan superstitions starting with a weekly miracle during a Mass. After that we will visit shrines and descend into catacombs where human bones are venerated and even adopted by locals. We’ll learn about the rituals and beliefs that live in these monumental sanctuaries.

Lunch will be at a classic neighborhood trattoria, beloved by locals.

In the evening, we will head out for a hands-on pizza workshop at a local pizzeria. During the workshop we will learn the art of pizza-making, step by step, from a master. Then we will enjoy the fruit of our labor, with a pizza dinner.

Home of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, this volcanic zone is a netherworld of crater lakes, ancient waterways, thriving viticulture and seafood farming. We’ll spend the day here learning about the agriculture, snacking on the local mussels, and lunching at a local winery accompanied by their unique wines and digging into the history of the place. We’ll get an in depth view of rich archaeological ruins in the area including the remarkably well-preserved basement of a significant amphitheater from which animals were released during gladiator games. And we’ll visit a tunnel, believed in ancient times to be a gate to hell.

We’ll have the morning free to relax in the old city and have a lunch on your own before meeting at the hotel for a walking tour of the city’s craftsmen. We’ll visit the workshops and studios of wood carvers, umbrella makers, luthier, nativity scene artists and much more.

In the evening we will gather for our farewell dinner held in a private home in one of the city’s most iconic buildings. In this noble setting, we’ll feast on course after course of Napoli staples accompanied by local wines as musicians of the distinct Neapolitan musical tradition play their favorite songs, celebrating in the Neapolitan way.

Depart for home or extend your stay in Naples.

Until the next adventure!