Visit Herculaneum

A vertiginous corniche of lemon groves and pastel towns — Positano, Amalfi, Ravello above a cobalt sea

Walk the streets of a Roman city frozen mid-life by Vesuvius in 79 AD — ruts, frescoes, bakeries and all

Italy's answer to Versailles — 1,200 rooms and a 3 km garden of cascades, used as a Star Wars palace

Three colossal Doric temples standing almost intact after 2,500 years, south of the Amalfi Coast

Bite into the original — a 60-second wood-fired margherita in the city that invented pizza

Loud, ancient and alive — the birthplace of pizza, gateway to Pompeii, Vesuvius and the Amalfi Coast

Queue at the 1870 Naples pizzeria the world calls the best — two pizzas on the menu, both perfect

Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius, Capri and the Amalfi Coast — Campania crams in Italy’s greatest hits of the south