🏛️Top Attractions

The finest collection of Pompeian mosaics, frescoes and bronzes anywhere.

Piazza Museo 19, Naples

Museum ticket

2–3 hours

Visit before Pompeii — the best finds from the site are here, not there.

An entire Roman city frozen by the eruption of 79 CE, half an hour from Naples.

Via Villa dei Misteri 2, Pompeii

Archaeological park ticket

Half day

Take the Circumvesuviana train; bring water and a hat — there is almost no shade.

Giuseppe Sanmartino's Veiled Christ, the most astonishing marble carving in Italy.

Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, Naples

Timed ticket

45 minutes

The chapel is tiny and capped — book a slot rather than turning up.

Greek quarries, Roman aqueducts and wartime shelters beneath the old city.

Piazza San Gaetano 68, Naples

Guided tour ticket

1–2 hours

Tours run on the hour; the narrow candle-lit passage is optional.

The city's synagogue and community centre, in a palazzo used by Naples Jewry since the 1860s.

Via Cappella Vecchia 31, Naples

Free (arrange in advance)

1 hour

Visits and minyanim must be arranged with the community beforehand; bring photo ID.

A Carthusian monastery on the Vomero hill with the best view over the bay and Vesuvius.

Largo San Martino 5, Naples

Museum ticket

1–2 hours

Ride the Montesanto funicular up and walk down through Vomero.