Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum's Greek temples: three of the world's great ruins within striking distance.
Explore → Get Early AccessThe coast's Roman layer surfaces in surprising places: Positano's buried villa with frescoes under the church crypt, Minori's seaside villa baths, and Paestum's three great Greek temples a day-trip south standing in wildflower meadows.
Roman aristocrats lined this shore with holiday villas, Tiberius commuted from Capri, and the 79 AD eruption that buried Pompeii dusted the coast too, preserving Positano's villa frescoes under meters of volcanic debris until 2003 excavations.
Paestum's temples are older and more complete than almost anything in Greece, and its museum holds the Tomb of the Diver, the only surviving Greek figurative tomb painting, a young man arcing eternally into blue. The site's roses bloomed twice yearly in antiquity; Virgil mentions them.
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