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Naples itinerary

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    Pompeii - The Roman City Frozen by Mount Vesuvius

    Pompeii ranks first on every list of things to do near Naples - a 64-hectare Roman city frozen by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 October AD 79. UNESCO inscribed the archaeological site in 1997 and ongoing…

    Address
    Via Plinio, 80045 Pompei NA
    Nearest transit
    Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri (Circumvesuviana from Napoli Garibaldi), 40-min train + 1-min walk
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    Naples Underground - The Hidden City Below the Streets

    Forty metres below the city's chaotic streets, Napoli Sotterranea reveals 2,500 years of layered Naples - Greek tufa quarries from the 4th century BC, a Roman aqueduct that supplied water until the 1800s cholera…

    Address
    Piazza San Gaetano 68, 80138 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Dante (Metro Line 1), 8-min walk
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    National Archaeological Museum (MANN) - The World's Greatest Roman Collection

    The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli holds the finest collection of Roman art on Earth - all of it excavated from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the surrounding Vesuvian cities. The Farnese Hercules, the Alexander…

    Address
    Piazza Museo 19, 80135 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Museo (Metro Line 1), 1-min walk
  4. 4

    Spaccanapoli - The Greek-Roman Street That Splits Naples in Two

    Spaccanapoli is the dead-straight Greek-Roman decumanus inferior that slices through the centro storico in an arrow-line you can see from Castel Sant'Elmo above. The street officially runs as Via Benedetto Croce, then…

    Address
    Via Benedetto Croce, 80134 Napoli (start point)
    Nearest transit
    Dante (Metro Line 1), 5-min walk
  5. 5

    Castel dell'Ovo - The Seafront Castle on Megaride Island

    Naples's oldest castle sits on the tiny Megaride Island, joined to the seafront by a short causeway. Norman king Roger II started construction in 1140 on the foundation of a Roman villa that belonged to Lucullus. The…

    Address
    Via Eldorado 3, 80132 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Bus 154 from Piazza Municipio, 10-min walk; or Toledo Metro (Line 1), 15-min walk
  6. 6

    Mount Vesuvius - The Volcano That Buried Pompeii

    The volcano that destroyed Pompeii is still active, classified as one of the most dangerous in the world due to the 3 million people in the metro area. The summit crater (1,281 m) can be reached on foot from the Quota…

    Address
    Strada Vesuvio, 80056 Ercolano NA (Quota 1000 car park)
    Nearest transit
    EAV bus from Pompei Scavi or Ercolano stations on the Circumvesuviana
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    Cappella Sansevero - Home of the Veiled Christ

    The Cappella Sansevero is a private noble chapel that holds Giuseppe Sanmartino's 1753 Cristo Velato - a single block of marble carved into a Christ figure draped in a translucent shroud so thin you can trace the wounds…

    Address
    Via Francesco de Sanctis 19/21, 80134 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Dante (Metro Line 1), 7-min walk
  8. 8

    Naples Cathedral (Duomo di San Gennaro) - Seat of the Miracle of Blood

    The Duomo di San Gennaro houses two glass ampoules of dried blood from San Gennaro, the city's patron saint, beheaded in AD 305. Three times a year - the first Saturday of May, 19 September, and 16 December - the blood…

    Address
    Via Duomo 147, 80138 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Cavour (Metro Line 1) or Duomo (Line 1, opened 2024), 5-min walk
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    Royal Palace and Piazza del Plebiscito - Bourbon Heart of Naples

    Piazza del Plebiscito is the largest square in Naples and the city's grandest civic space - a 25,000 sq m semicircle anchored by the neoclassical Basilica of San Francesco di Paola (modelled on the Pantheon) and the…

    Address
    Piazza del Plebiscito 1, 80132 Napoli
    Nearest transit
    Toledo (Metro Line 1), 5-min walk
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    Eat Authentic Pizza Margherita in the Centro Storico

    Pizza Margherita was invented in Naples in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito for Queen Margherita of Savoy, who wanted a patriotic pizza in the colours of the Italian flag (red tomato, white mozzarella, green basil). UNESCO…

    Address
    Via Cesare Sersale 1/3, 80139 Napoli (L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele)
    Nearest transit
    Garibaldi (Metro Line 1 / 2), 6-min walk

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