Attractions

A Gothic basilica where Thomas Aquinas once taught theology, its square marked by a soaring Baroque spire raised in thanks after the plague.

A Gothic Franciscan basilica built over the excavated Greco-Roman market of ancient Neapolis, ten metres beneath Naples' historic centre.

Home to Giuseppe Sanmartino's astonishing Veiled Christ, an 18th-century marble masterpiece so lifelike it still baffles visitors today.

Naples' oldest fortress, perched on a tiny islet where a Roman emperor was once exiled and a magic egg is said to guard the city's fate.

A moated Angevin-Aragonese fortress guarding Naples' port, famed for its gleaming Renaissance triumphal arch and the hall where a king once trapped his rebellious barons.

A six-pointed star fortress cut into the Vomero hilltop, offering what many consider the single best panorama over Naples, the bay and Vesuvius.

Naples' oldest Christian burial ground, revived from decades of neglect by the young cooperative that now leads its tours.

A Gothic monastery reborn in Baroque splendour on the Vomero hill, home to a legendary 800-figure Neapolitan nativity scene and sweeping views over the bay.

An eerie ossuary carved into ancient tufa quarries in the Rione Sanità, where centuries of Neapolitan devotion to the anonymous dead still linger among rows of skulls.

A soaring 19th-century glass-and-iron arcade in central Naples, crowned by a 57-metre dome directly across from the San Carlo opera house.

A Gothic Angevin basilica rebuilt after WWII bombing, beside a beloved 18th-century cloister whose pillars and benches are covered in hand-painted majolica tiles.

A hilltop Bourbon palace turned picture gallery, ringed by Naples' largest park and filled with the Farnese family's Renaissance masterpieces.

The Gothic cathedral of Naples' patron saint, where a centuries-old miracle of liquefying blood still draws thousands three times a year.

A guided descent forty metres beneath Naples' streets, through Greek quarries, Roman aqueducts, and wartime air-raid shelters.

One of the world's great archaeology collections, uniting the Farnese Marbles with treasures pulled from the ashes of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Naples' grandest square, a sweeping neoclassical stage framed by the Royal Palace and the domed, colonnaded Basilica of San Francesco di Paola.

A working charity since 1602, whose octagonal Baroque church still holds Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy exactly where he painted it to hang.

A sprawling Spanish-Bourbon royal palace on Piazza del Plebiscito, its facade lined with statues of the eight dynasties that once ruled Naples.

The dead-straight street that has sliced through the heart of Naples since the 5th century BC, following the ancient decumano inferiore of Greek Neapolis.

The oldest continuously active opera house in the world, opened in 1737 on the orders of King Charles III, decades before La Scala or La Fenice.

A narrow lane in the heart of old Naples lined year-round with workshops crafting nativity figurines, a tradition rooted in a Roman temple that once stood on this very spot.

Naples's historic seafront garden, laid out for the Bourbon court in the 18th century and opened to everyone in 1869, shaded by century-old palms.