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.
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.
L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele
1 Via Cesare Sersale, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80139, Italy
There are only two things on the menu: margherita and marinara.
Maradona Mural & Shrine
Via Emanuele de Deo, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80134, Italy
In the narrow streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli, there is a shrine to a man who is not a saint by any official measure, but try telling that to the Neapolitans who leave candles, flowers, scarves, and prayers here every day.
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 del Plebiscito
Piazza del Plebiscito, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80132, Italy
For most of its history, this enormous piazza was a car park.
Pizzeria Sorbillo
Via dei Tribunali 32, 80138 Naples
Gino Sorbillo is the 19th of 21 children, all born to pizza-making parents, who were themselves born to pizza-making parents.
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.
Royal Palace of Naples
Piazza del Plebiscito 1, 80132 Naples
This palace was built for a king who never showed up.
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.
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 San Gregorio Armeno
Via San Gregorio Armeno, 80138 Naples
Every December, this narrow street becomes one of the most densely packed places in Italy, but the artisans who work here operate year-round, hunched over workbenches carving, painting, and assembling the elaborate nativity scenes — presepi — that Neapolitans take more seriously than almost anything else.
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