10 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Naples
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Art Metro Stations
Via Toledo, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80134, Italy
Naples turned its subway system into one of the most ambitious public art projects in Europe, and barely anyone outside Italy knows about it.
Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino)
Via Vittorio Emanuele Terzo, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80133, Italy
The white marble triumphal arch wedged between the dark towers of this castle is one of the strangest architectural collisions in Italy.
Castel Sant'Elmo
22 Via Tito Angelini, Municipalità 5, Naples, 80129, Italy
From the air, this fortress looks like a six-pointed star carved out of the volcanic hilltop.
Galleria Umberto I
Via San Carlo, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80132, Italy
Naples built this soaring glass-and-iron arcade for the worst possible reason: a cholera epidemic.
Piazza Dante
Municipalità 2, Naples, Italy
Before it was Piazza Dante, this was the Largo del Mercatello — the "little market" — and for centuries it was where Naples came to buy, sell, argue, and occasionally riot.
Piazza del Plebiscito
Piazza del Plebiscito, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80132, Italy
For most of its history, this enormous piazza was a car park.
Royal Palace of Naples
Piazza del Plebiscito 1, 80132 Naples
This palace was built for a king who never showed up.
San Domenico Maggiore
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 8A, 80134 Naples
This church sits on one of the most beautiful piazzas in Naples, anchored by a Baroque plague column erected in 1737 — because in this city even the monuments to mass death are gorgeous.
Teatro San Carlo
Via San Carlo 98, 80132 Naples
This is the oldest continuously operating opera house in the world, and it opened 41 years before Milan's La Scala and 55 years before Venice's La Fenice.
Via Toledo
Via Toledo, 80134 Naples
Stendhal called this the most populated and gayest street in the world, and while 19th-century French novelists had a tendency toward hyperbole, he wasn't entirely wrong.
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