Francesca Del Vecchio
Francesca is a native Neapolitan and art historian with a degree in art history from the Federico II University in Naples. She attended the 3 year postgraduation Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell'Arte from the same University. Her specialization is Art Communication and she has been teaching Museography at the Fisciano University in Salerno for 15 years. She has been in charge for the Education Departments of some of the most relevant Neapolitan art institutions: San Carlo Opera House, Santa Chiara Museum and Cloister, Royal Palace. Passionate for her city and the entire Campania Region, she has been accompanying people around as a licensed professional tour guide for the last 30 years. Francesca is fluent in Italian, English, and French, and has a great interest in Medioeval art, Baroque art and decorative arts. Due to her extensive knowledge of the history of Naples and the Campania Region from Pompeii to Caserta and the Amalfi Coast she leads a wide variety of tailor-made itineraries. She has published a children guide book for the Royal Palace in Naples, edited the texts for two Audioguides: one for the Royal Palace in Naples and another for a castle in Aosta. She was recently chosen by the BBC4 Channel to be part of the edition of a television documentary on Pompeii "Write Around the World with Richard E. Grant". Francesca is always smiling and her positive attitude towards life is going to be shared with people getting around with her.
Francesca was terrific - extremely knowledgeable and adept at working around the crowds. She was able to answer all our questions on various topics. There is so much to see but she showed us the best examples of different types of buildings. I appreciated that she used the time in the car to tell us more. Highly recommended!
Francesca is knowledgeable and personable. Her tour of Underground Naples, and through Naples was fantastic. We toured with here once before, a year ago, and look forward to ding that again, and again!
Perfecto! The tour with Francesca was everything I could have dreamed of. I had a narrow window of one day for a tour of Pompeii and Herculaneum, yet I wanted a high quality tour (you can not have both with shortness of time and travel between the two sites without a guide and transportation). These two sites have been on my "bucket list" for 50 years since I was a young girl. Francesca is fluent in a few languages, I might add, so she can accommodate different groups! Francesca, who has 30 years of experience, knew exactly what to see in both locations, plus give in-depth explanations of the context and history of the locations within the two ancient cities (ie the Faun House, the baths at the Porto Marina entrance). Francesca also does an excellent job contrasting the two ancient cities in terms of their roles as cities in ancient times and how they were affected differently by the Vesuvius eruption. She is also up-to-date on present day issues affecting Pompeii and Herculaneum. I am now content knowing I have seen the best. I would hire Francesca for any tour.
