Getting here

The address

Vicolo Tessitori 27, 84018 Scafati (SA), Italy

The alley is the real one, the one in the story: from the street you see nothing. You walk in, and there is the garden.

By train — and this is the right way

Scafati’s national railway station is 250 metres away: a three-minute walk, suitcase and all, no thinking required.

From there, Naples and Salerno are 25 minutes away. This isn’t brochure filler: it’s the reason our guests write in their reviews that they never needed the car. You go to Naples in the morning and come back in the evening without hunting for a parking space, without paying for one, and without sitting in the queue on the coast road.

The ruins of Pompeii are a fifteen-minute walk. From the house. On foot.

From 2027, two train stops will also take you to Naples Capodichino airport.

From Rome, by train

From Roma Termini a Frecciarossa (or Italo) reaches Naples Centrale in just over an hour; there you change to the Naples–Salerno regional train and half an hour later you’re in Scafati. From Rome, that’s about two and a half hours in all — less than taking the motorway.

For the ruins: FS train, not the Circumvesuviana

One clarification that saves mistakes: Scafati’s station, 250 metres away, is the national railway (Trenitalia) one, on the Naples–Salerno line. The Circumvesuviana — the one many people associate with “Pompei Scavi” and Sorrento — is a different network, and it isn’t ours.

For the ruins of Pompeii the FS train is exactly what you want: from Scafati it’s one stop (about 3 minutes) to the Pompei station, on the side of the Piazza Anfiteatro entrance. Everything else — hours, tickets, which entrance — is in the Visiting Pompeii guide.

By car

The handiest exit on the A3 Naples–Pompeii–Salerno motorway is Pompei Centro, about a kilometre away: from there you reach Naples, Salerno and the rest of Campania.

Capodichino is half an hour by car.

Parking has a page of its own, because there are one or two things worth knowing before you arrive: Parking.

By plane — from Capodichino

The airport is Naples Capodichino, half an hour by car.

Without a car it’s easy all the same: from the airport the Alibus takes you to Naples Centrale in about a quarter of an hour (ticket ~€5), and from there the Naples–Salerno regional train reaches Scafati. About an hour and a half in all, suitcases included. If you’d rather not think about it, we arrange a transfer with a driver to the door: see Breakfast and services.

To the Coast, without a car

The finest way to see the Amalfi Coast is from the sea. From Scafati take the train to Salerno and from there the ferry: Amalfi has sailings all year, Positano from April to October. From Amalfi the SITA Sud bus climbs to Agerola, where the Path of the Gods begins.

Capri and Ischia are reached by sea from Naples (and Capri also from Sorrento). Timetables change with the season: ask Domenico when you arrive and he’ll give you the current ones, or check the ferry companies’ official sites. For a day-by-day plan see the Pompeii and Amalfi Coast itinerary guide.