Highlights

• Naples underground
• Galleria Umberto I
• Basilica Reale Pontificia San Francesco da Paola
• Piazza del Plebiscito
• Gallerie d’Italia
• Galleria Borbonica
• Castel Sant’Elmo beniculturali.it
• Ovo Castle
• Via Toledo shopping
• Fountain of Neptune
• Herculaneum aka Ercolano
• Pompeii
• Starting point to visit the Amalfi Coast (Positano, Ravello) and Sorrento
• Interesting street art including Maradona Mural

Before you go

• Naples is located on the southwest coast of Italy and a good arrival city to visit Sorrento and the Amalfi coast
• Home of the original pizza! We learned that the first pizzas were deep fried
• Summer months from June through August are very hot. For me, May and September are the best balance of temperature and not too much rain
• Almost all places accept credit cards, except small businesses, which may prefer cash
• Uber works but you may have to wait

Transport

• From the airport it is possible to get to the city by metro and/or bus but it takes about an hour
• A taxi is fixed price from the airport and as of 2025, cost about 25 euros but be careful of drivers who change the price along the way
• It is possible to walk around the city, but it’s big so you may want to take the metro or use Uber/Taxi. We generally preferred Uber so that the price was fixed, but there was sometimes quite a long wait
• Funicolare Centrale up to the Castel Sant’Elmo; check opening times

Accommodation

• I stayed at B&B Museum, which was located right across from the Archaeological Museum. There is a lift most of the way up and then a steep narrow staircase. The host was very friendly and accommodating, room was spacious and clean, and the breakfast was delicious!
• On the other hand, my friends stayed in the same buiIding at a different place, Affittacamere Il Ventre di Napoli. Their host was not as accommodating, they didn’t get breakfast, and there was no one around to leave luggage with. They said they would not recommend it.
• As usual I recommend checking reviews on Booking.com or using AirBnB

Food

Pasticceria Poppella is one of the well known bakeries to get the local pastry called sfogliatelle, like a croissant filled with different flavours of cream. I waited in a queue and picked up some of those and a rum baba.

Di Costanzo Pasticceria was located near my B&B and the source of their breakfast pastries. The local bomboloni, doughnuts filled with cream, were delicious and fresh!

Via dei Tribunale is known as the pizza street, because there are lots of tasty pizzerias located there. A recommendation from my B&B was Antica Pizzeria Di Matteo, and we wanted to try it but the queue was too long. So we had takeaway pizza from a small place, ‘A Puteca d’ ‘a Pizza. It was fantastic and we got to try the original deep fried pizza.