Basilica of Santa Chiara
49C Via Santa Chiara, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80134, Italy
The majolica-tiled cloister behind this church is one of the most photographed spots in Naples, and it's also one of the most improbable.
Bourbon Tunnel (Tunnel Borbonico)
4 Vico del Grottone, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80132, Italy
King Ferdinand II was paranoid, and for good reason.
Cappella Sansevero
19 Via Francesco De Sanctis, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80134, Italy
There is a marble sculpture in this chapel that has made grown adults weep.
Castel dell'Ovo
3 Via Eldorado, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80132, Italy
Naples' oldest castle is built on a legend involving a magic egg, a Roman poet, and the potential destruction of an entire city.
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.
Catacombs of San Gennaro
13 Via Capodimonte, Municipalità 3, Naples, 80136, Italy
Beneath the Capodimonte hill lies the largest underground early Christian burial site in southern Italy, and it's been down here since the 2nd century AD.
Certosa di San Martino
5 Largo San Martino, Municipalità 5, Naples, 80129, Italy
The Carthusian monks who lived here for five centuries had the best view in Naples and they knew it.
Museo di Capodimonte
2 Via Lucio Amelio, Municipalità 3, Naples, 80131, Italy
Charles of Bourbon had a problem most people would envy: he'd inherited the Farnese Collection — one of the greatest accumulations of Renaissance and Baroque art ever assembled — from his mother, and his existing palace was too small to hold it.
Naples Cathedral (Duomo di San Gennaro)
147 Via Duomo, Municipalità 4, Naples, 80138, Italy
Three times a year, the entire city of Naples holds its breath and stares at a vial of dried blood.
Naples National Archaeological Museum
19 Piazza Museo Nazionale, Municipalità 3, Naples, 80135, Italy
If you want to understand what daily life looked like in a Roman city two thousand years ago, this is the single most important building on earth.
Naples Underground (Napoli Sotterranea)
68 Piazza San Gaetano, Municipalità 4, Naples, 80138, Italy
Forty meters beneath the traffic and chaos of modern Naples, there's an entire second city.
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.
Pompeii Archaeological Park
Porta Marina, Via Villa dei Misteri, 80045 Pompei
On August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried an entire Roman city under six meters of volcanic ash and pumice.
Rione Sanita
Rione Sanità, 80136 Naples
This is the neighborhood Naples forgot, and then remembered just in time.
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.
Spaccanapoli
Via Benedetto Croce / Via San Biagio dei Librai, 80134 Naples
Stand on the hilltop terrace of Castel Sant'Elmo and look down, and you'll see it immediately: a single straight line slicing the entire old city in half like a surgical cut.
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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