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Napoli Sotterranea (Underground Naples)
STAZIONE CENTRALE AND CENTRO STORICO
P. San Gaetano 68
}081 29 69 44; www.napolisotterranea.org
If Napoli Sotterranea is anything to go by, our post-apocalyptic lives will be dark, damp, and cold—but spacious! Beneat…
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale
STAZIONE CENTRALE AND CENTRO STORICO
P. Museo Nazionale 19
}081 29 28 23; http://museoarcheologiconazionale.campaniabeniculturali.it
Many people rush through this museum of artifacts recovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum to reach the ever-popular Gabin…
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Museo di Palazzo Reale
WESTERN NAPLES
P. del Plebiscito 1
}081 40 05 47
Visitors can play royalty for a day in the magnificent halls of this sprawling structure, once home to Bourbon kings and…
Cappella San Severo
STAZIONE CENTRALE AND CENTRO STORICO
V. Francesco de Sanctis 19/21
}081 55 18 470; www.museosansevero.it
This 1590 chapel has been converted into a private museum—making for one fewer church in a city that’s full of them. Sev…
Pio Monte della Misericordia
STAZIONE CENTRALE AND CENTRO STORICO
V. dei Tribunali 253
}081 44 69 44; www.piomontedellamisericordia.it
Caravaggio must have been feeling pangs of guilt for killing a man in a duel when he painted The Seven Works of Mercy—or…
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
STAZIONE CENTRALE AND CENTRO STORICO
You can’t miss this piazza—it’s truly a sight to behold, if not the prettiest picture to put on a postcard. P. Garibaldi…
Basilica di San Francesco di Paola
WESTERN NAPLES
P. del Plebiscito 10
}081 76 45 133
The Basilica di San Francesco di Paola is an impressive answer to the Palazzo Reale across the way. The soaring interior…
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte
WESTERN NAPLES
V. Miano 2
}081 74 99 111; http://museodicapodimonte.campaniabeniculturali.it
Here’s a true rarity among museums, especially in Italy: a collection that features classical works alongside contempora…
Castel Sant’Elmo
WESTERN NAPLES
V. Tito Angelini 20
}081 22 94 401
Stop, take in some air, and gaze out over the wall of this castle. You’ll need that oxygen, because this view truly take…
Castel dell’Ovo (Egg Castle)
WESTERN NAPLES
V. Eldorado 3
}081 24 00 055
All that fuss over an egg? Indeed, throughout Naples’s history, one measly egg has caused a string of panics. According …