2 Days in Naples, Italy: Is It Price It? (Full Itinerary)

I’ve been travelling to Italy for over thirty years, and for many of them I handled Naples as a spot you move by means of fairly than keep. The station, the port, a fast espresso, and onwards to someplace tidier. Then Jess and I gave the town 4 nights, ate our method down By way of dei Tribunali, climbed as much as Castel Sant’Elmo, and got here away a little bit embarrassed it had taken us so lengthy.

So let me reply the query up entrance. Sure, Naples is price visiting. Two days is sufficient to see the most effective of the town itself, eat the pizza that was invented right here, and stand on a terrace Vesuvius throughout the bay. It’s loud, it’s scruffy in locations, and the site visitors operates on ideas science has but to clarify. Additionally it is one of the crucial alive cities in Europe, and it’ll feed you higher than nearly wherever for much less cash than nearly wherever.

This information is about Naples, Italy, by the best way. For those who had been on the lookout for Naples, Florida, you’re within the improper hemisphere, although I hear the golf is nice.

Beneath is strictly how we’d spend 2 days in Naples, plus the place to remain, the place the pizza queues are literally price your time, and a straight reply on whether or not to squeeze Pompeii into a brief go to (brief model: most likely not, and I say that as somebody who went).

 

Is Naples Price Visiting?

Naples has a fame, and also you’ve most likely learn some model of it: soiled, chaotic, a spot to outlive on the best way to Pompeii or the Amalfi Coast. I wish to take care of this earlier than we get to the itinerary, as a result of it’s the query most individuals are quietly asking.

Right here’s what we truly discovered. The historic centre is a working, residing neighbourhood fairly than a museum quarter. Washing hangs between buildings above streets which have adopted the identical strains because the Greeks laid them out, which is why UNESCO listed the Historic Centre of Naples as a World Heritage Web site again in 1995.

There’s garbage in some corners and graffiti on most surfaces, and ten metres later there’s a baroque chapel containing one of many best sculptures ever carved. That distinction is the town. For those who want your locations pressure-washed, Naples will annoy you. For those who can take a metropolis by itself phrases, it’s a pleasure.

The meals alone justifies the journey. Naples is the birthplace of contemporary pizza, and that’s an official place fairly than native bragging, backed by an EU Conventional Speciality Assured registration in 2010 and a UNESCO itemizing for the artwork of the Neapolitan pizzaiuolo in 2017. A margherita at one of many well-known locations prices about €5. I’ve paid 4 occasions that in London for pizza half nearly as good.

And the setting is ridiculous. You get a curving bay, a brooding volcano, castles on hills and islands on the horizon, all stacked behind one of many densest historic centres in Europe. For photographers particularly, Naples provides you extra per sq. metre than any Italian metropolis I can consider.

 

Is Naples Protected?

Broadly, sure. We walked the Centro Storico, the Spanish Quarter’s edges, Vomero and the waterfront at varied hours throughout 4 days, cameras on shoulders, and had no hassle in any respect. The true threat is identical as Rome or Barcelona: pickpockets in crowds and on busy transport. Preserve your telephone out of your again pocket on Spaccanapoli, preserve luggage zipped on the metro and the Circumvesuviana, and also you’ve handled most of it.

A few sensible notes from our keep. The realm round Napoli Centrale station is grittier than the remainder of the tourist-facing metropolis, high-quality in daylight and a bit bleak at night time, which issues for the place you keep (extra on that under). And the scooters actually don’t cease, so cross roads like an area: decide a niche, stroll steadily, don’t hesitate. Hesitation confuses everybody.

 

The place to Keep in Naples

Naples neighbourhoods have very totally different personalities, and selecting the improper one is the best technique to have a worse journey than you need to.

Neighbourhood	What it’s like	Keep right here if
Centro Storico	The center of it. Historical streets, church buildings, pizzerias, noise. Atmospheric day and night time.	You wish to be within the thick of issues and don’t thoughts some night din.
Chiaia	Elegant, calmer, seafront promenade, smarter outlets and eating places. Pricier.	You’d like Naples with the amount turned down a couple of notches.
Vomero	Residential hilltop district with the most effective views, reached by funicular. Quiet at night time.	You worth calm and panoramas over rolling off the bed into the sights.
Close to Napoli Centrale	Handy for trains, low cost, and noticeably rougher across the edges.	You’re primarily utilizing Naples as a day-trip base and prioritise the station.

 

We truly stayed close to Centrale ourselves, in an residence, principally as a result of we wanted to do laundry and the placement made our Pompeii and Vesuvius logistics simple. It did the job, and it put us close to a fried pizza place we nonetheless discuss. However I wouldn’t suggest it for a primary go to. You’ll spend your evenings commuting again to a nook of the town with the least allure, and first impressions matter.

For a primary journey to Naples, keep central. Someplace in or on the sting of the Centro Storico places every thing on this itinerary inside strolling distance, and the night environment within the previous city is half the rationale to return.

For those who’re a extra nervous traveller, or that is your first time in Italy, that central-but-considered method nonetheless beats retreating to the station district; decide a resort on one of many bigger streets close to By way of Toledo or in the direction of Piazza Bellini fairly than deep within the alleys, and also you’ll get the placement with out feeling swallowed by it.

Chiaia is the opposite possibility I’d fortunately level first-timers at, particularly if a quieter, seafront-flavoured Naples sounds interesting and the 20 minute stroll or brief metro hop into the previous city doesn’t put you off.

Some locations to start out your search:

 

Attending to and Round Naples

Getting right here is fairly simple. Excessive-speed trains from Rome take simply over an hour into Napoli Centrale, and the airport is a brief hop from the centre on the Alibus shuttle, which runs to each Centrale and the port.

When you’re right here, the town itself is generally a strolling proposition, with public transport filling the gaps. The ANM community covers the metro, buses, trams and, my favorite bit, 4 funiculars that haul you as much as Vomero. A single built-in ticket prices round €1.70 and is legitimate for 90 minutes, however the easier possibility for this itinerary is the €4.50 day ticket, which covers the lot.

Metro Line 1 is price driving for its personal sake; the stations had been designed as public artwork installations, and Toledo station frequently tops lists of probably the most lovely metro stops in Europe.

One warning: don’t convey a automobile. Naples has restricted site visitors zones, scarce parking, and a driving tradition finest appreciated from the pavement. In case your wider Italy plans want a automobile, acquire it once you depart the town, like we did on a latest journey to Naples.

 

Is the Campania ArteCard Price It?

Naples has an official regional move, the Campania ArteCard, and in contrast to plenty of metropolis passes it’s truly a wise product. There are two variations that matter, and one query picks between them: are you leaving the town or not?

For this 2-day metropolis itinerary, the Napoli 3-day card (€27) is the one to take a look at. You get your first 3 websites free, as much as half off after that, and 72 hours of city transport thrown in. Worth up your plans first although: when you’re solely doing, say, MANN (€20) and one or two cheaper websites plus a day ticket, it’s marginal.

For those who’re extending your journey to Pompeii, Herculaneum or Vesuvius, swap to the Campania 3-day card (€41). It contains 2 website entries chosen from the large regional hitters, Pompeii included, and it covers the regional Circumvesuviana trains in addition to metropolis transport. The Napoli card doesn’t, and that’s the element that catches folks out.

 

The Tuesday Drawback (and Three Different Planning Traps)

A number of issues will quietly wreck a brief Naples go to if no one warns you. Contemplate your self warned.

1. Tuesday is museum blackout day. As of mid-2026, the three headline indoor sights all shut on the identical day: MANN, the Cappella Sansevero and the Certosa di San Martino are all shut on Tuesdays. The Certosa solely moved to Tuesday closing on the finish of June 2026, so older info nonetheless says Wednesday. In case your two days embody a Tuesday, make it your street-food-terraces-and-waterfront day (Castel Sant’Elmo stays open all week) and shift the museums to the opposite day.

2. The Veiled Christ sells out. Entry to the Cappella Sansevero is by timed ticket, reserving is necessary, and slots go on sale 60 days forward. Ebook as quickly as your dates agency up. That is the one reserving on this itinerary you may’t wing.

3. The well-known pizzerias have well-known queues. An hour-plus wait at peak occasions is regular on the large names. Go at midday when doorways open, go mid-afternoon, or have a second decide prepared. Full pizza technique under.

4. A day journey prices you half your metropolis time. Pompeii, Vesuvius and Capri are all doable from Naples, and all of them eat the higher a part of a day. With solely two, I’d preserve each for the town. My reasoning, and the logistics when you overrule me, are additional down.

 

Day 1 in Naples: The Centro Storico

Day one is all in regards to the previous city, and it’s nearly totally on foot. Right here’s the day at a look, adopted by the element. You’ll be able to swap the 2 days freely, after all, and if one among your days is a Tuesday, you’ll have to.

 

Time	Cease	Notes
09:00 to 10:00	Cappella Sansevero	Timed entry, pre-booked. Closed Tuesdays.
10:00 to 11:30	Spaccanapoli and By way of dei Tribunali stroll	Santa Chiara cloister, San Gregorio Armeno.
11:30 to 12:15	Duomo di Napoli	Free entry. Purpose for the morning window.
12:30 to 13:45	Pizza lunch	Queue technique applies. See the pizza part.
14:00 to 16:00	Napoli Sotterranea	English excursions each 2 hours. Ebook on-line.
16:15 to 17:30	Piazza del Gesù and a sluggish wander	Gesù Nuovo’s odd studded facade.
18:30 onwards	Aperitivo and dinner	Piazza Bellini for drinks, then eat close by.

 

Begin with the large one. The Cappella Sansevero (€12, open 9am to 7pm, closed Tuesdays) is a small baroque chapel holding Giuseppe Sanmartino’s Veiled Christ, a marble determine underneath a marble shroud so high-quality that your mind refuses to just accept it’s stone. Photographs aren’t allowed inside, which seems to be a present; everybody truly seems on the factor. Ebook the 9am slot if you will get it and also you’ll share the room with far fewer folks. If tickets have offered out in your dates, a guided tour with entry included is the dependable again door.

From the chapel you’re steps from Spaccanapoli, the arrow-straight avenue that splits the previous city, and By way of dei Tribunali operating parallel. Give this stretch a sluggish 90 minutes. The Santa Chiara cloister is an unexpectedly peaceable courtyard of hand-painted majolica tiles hiding behind one of many plainest church fronts within the metropolis, and San Gregorio Armeno is the road of the presepi makers, the place artisans promote nativity scene figures year-round alongside caricatures of footballers and politicians, as a result of Naples sees no contradiction there.

Keep on to the Duomo (free entry), dwelling of the chapel of San Gennaro, the town’s patron saint, whose dried blood is claimed to liquefy thrice a yr in entrance of a packed congregation. The cathedral sometimes retains mornings-and-late-afternoons hours with a noon break, so it slots finest proper right here within the day. In order for you the total treasury, the Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro subsequent door is a separate ticket at €15, price it if baroque goldwork is your factor.

Then lunch, which in Naples on day one can solely imply pizza. I’ve given the pizzerias their very own part under as a result of they deserve it; the brief operational notice right here is to reach simply earlier than midday or settle for a queue.

Afterwards, stroll it off 40 metres underground. Napoli Sotterranea (€13, excursions from Piazza San Gaetano) runs guided visits into the Greek-Roman aqueduct system and wartime air-raid shelters beneath the previous city, roughly 2 hours, with English excursions each 2 hours by means of the day. The 2pm slot matches this plan. There’s one slender candle-lit passage that anybody claustrophobic can skip, and will. You may as well ebook it as a guided package via GetYourGuide.

End the afternoon at Piazza del Gesù, the place the Gesù Nuovo church wears a facade of studded volcanic stone pyramids that appears extra like a fortress than a spot of worship (it was initially a palace wall, which explains lots). Then discover a desk on Piazza Bellini for an aperitivo among the many college students and the ruins of the particular Greek metropolis partitions, and keep within the previous city for dinner. You’ll not run out of choices.

 

Day 2 in Naples: MANN, Vomero and the Waterfront

Day two provides altitude and sea air, plus one of many world’s nice museums.

 

Time	Cease	Notes
09:00 to 11:30	MANN archaeological museum	Closed Tuesdays. Do it first, recent.
11:45 to 12:00	Metro Line 1 to Vanvitelli (Vomero)	Or funicular from Montesanto.
12:00 to 14:00	Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant’Elmo	Certosa closed Tuesdays; the fort is open every day.
14:00 to fifteen:00	Late lunch in Vomero	Native, unhurried, cheaper than downhill.
15:15 to 16:45	Funicular down, Toledo station, Galleria Umberto I, Piazza del Plebiscito	The grand Nineteenth-century metropolis in a single stroll.
17:00 to 18:30	Lungomare and Castel dell’Ovo (exterior)	Golden hour over the bay. Citadel at present closed.
19:30 onwards	Dinner in Chiaia or Borgo Marinari	Seafood territory.

 

The National Archaeological Museum, universally shortened to MANN (€20, open 9am to 7.30pm, closed Tuesdays), holds the Farnese assortment of classical sculpture and the most effective of every thing excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum: the mosaics, the frescoes, the family objects.

Most first-time guests have this backwards: the treasures aren’t at Pompeii, they’re right here. For those who solely have two days, two and a half hours at MANN will get you nearer to Roman every day life than a rushed half-day on the website itself, and it pairs completely with a full Pompeii go to on a future journey. The Alexander Mosaic alone, assembled from greater than one million tiny tiles, is well worth the ticket.

From the museum, hop on Metro Line 1 4 stops to Vanvitelli and also you’re in Vomero, the hilltop district the place on a regular basis Naples will get on with life a hill above the crowds. (For those who’d fairly journey a funicular up, and you need to in some unspecified time in the future, the Montesanto line is a 15 minute stroll from MANN.)

Up right here, the Certosa di San Martino (€6, closed Tuesdays), a former monastery, has ornate cloisters and the most effective assortment of these presepi nativity scenes you noticed being carved yesterday. Subsequent door, Castel Sant’Elmo (€5, or €9 mixed with the Certosa, open every day) is a star-shaped fortress whose ramparts provide the definitive view of Naples: the entire metropolis tipped out beneath you, Spaccanapoli slicing by means of it in a useless straight line, Vesuvius throughout the water. It’s the picture of the journey, and we spent rather a lot longer up there than deliberate.

Have a late lunch in Vomero the place costs drop and menus lose their English translations, then take the Funicolare Centrale down in the direction of By way of Toledo. Three fast stops as you stroll south: pop into Toledo metro station to see its blue mosaic escalator shaft even when you’re not driving wherever, stroll the marble flooring underneath the glass dome of the Galleria Umberto I, and cross the huge colonnaded sweep of Piazza del Plebiscito, which after the alleys of the previous city seems like somebody abruptly turned the lights on.

A few minutes east of Piazza del Plebiscito, on the best way down in the direction of the port, stands Castel Nuovo, the moated medieval fortress everybody calls the Maschio Angioino, its blunt darkish towers framing a stunning white marble triumphal arch. You’ll be able to head inside to the civic museum, however even a glance from the drawbridge is well worth the brief detour earlier than you drop right down to the water.

Finish the day on the Lungomare, the seafront promenade, timed for golden hour. Castel dell’Ovo, the fortress on its little island, is at present closed to guests for restoration, with no reopening date introduced.

We climbed its ramparts on an earlier journey, earlier than the present closure, and the views again over the bay are terrific, so it’s price checking whether or not it has reopened by the point you journey. Even shut, the fort was at all times finest appreciated from outdoors, and the Borgo Marinari harbour at its ft is as photogenic as ever with Vesuvius glowing pink behind the masts. Keep for a seafood dinner right here or stroll 10 minutes into Chiaia.

One sight this two-day plan intentionally leaves out is the Museo di Capodimonte, the previous Bourbon palace on the hill north of the centre that now holds one among Italy’s nice portray collections: Caravaggio, Titian, Bruegel, and Naples’ personal Farnese footage, hung by means of a string of gilded royal flats.

It’s a correct half-day when you issue within the journey up, which is why it doesn’t match a primary 48 hours, however when you have a 3rd day, or MANN leaves you wanting extra, that is the place we’d ship you subsequent. Jess may fortunately have stood in entrance of its stormy work of Vesuvius erupting all afternoon.

 

The place to Eat Pizza in Naples

Proper. The part you truly got here for. Pizza because the world is aware of it was invented in Naples, the EU and UNESCO have each formalised what locals by no means doubted, and consuming it in situ is a respectable motive to go to the town by itself. Over 4 days we ate plenty of analysis. These are the calls I’d make.

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele (By way of Cesare Sersale 1) is the purist’s temple: open since 1870, two pizzas on the menu (margherita and marinara), plus a handful of variations they’d fairly you didn’t order. It’s the total expertise, ticket-number queue and all. Go at opening or brace for a protracted wait. Personally we didn’t assume it was well worth the wait, and different pizza we had in Naples was higher. However not together with it will be sacrilege, so right here we’re.

Gino Sorbillo (By way of dei Tribunali 32) is the well-known identify on the pizza avenue itself, with a puffier, extra blistered crust and toppings da Michele would take into account reckless. Word the tackle: there are a number of Sorbillo-named pizzerias on this avenue due to a sprawling household of pizzaioli, and quantity 32 is the one the queue is for.

Di Matteo (By way of dei Tribunali 94) is my tactical advice, as a result of it solves the queue drawback: the road window sells pizza a portafoglio, a complete small pizza folded into quarters and handed over wrapped in paper for pocket change. Consuming one standing on the street whereas the Tribunali crowds movement round you is, for my cash, probably the most Neapolitan meals expertise of the lot.

These three are the well-known names, and so they earn it. However the most effective pizza we ate in Naples got here from a less-touristed nook. Pizzeria Carmnella (By way of Marino Cristoforo 22) is a four-generation, 1892-vintage place within the Borgo Sant’Antonio Abate district close to the station, with no queue well worth the identify and a faultless margherita made by individuals who have been doing precisely this for over a century. For those who’re staying close to Centrale, otherwise you merely need the pizza with out the pilgrimage, go right here.

Past the classics, don’t depart with out attempting pizza fritta, the deep-fried, folded cousin of the traditional. It sounds heavy, and it’s, and we favored it much more than we anticipated to.

The most effective we had was La Masardona, frying since 1945 at its authentic location on By way of Giulio Cesare Capaccio, a few minutes from the station, and it was among the finest issues both of us ate all journey.

Steadiness the books afterwards with a sfogliatella, the crackly shell-shaped ricotta pastry, and a espresso drunk the native method: standing on the bar, shortly, and by no means a cappuccino after a meal except you get pleasure from being visibly forgiven by the barista.

For those who’d fairly graze your method by means of all of this with somebody who is aware of the alleys, a guided street food walk covers fried pizza, sfogliatelle and the remainder in a single night.

 

Ought to You Do a Day Journey From Naples?

Naples sits in the midst of an absurd focus of day-trip materials: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Vesuvius, Capri, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast are all inside simple attain. Which creates the central dilemma of a 2-day go to. The plain transfer is to cram Pompeii into day two, and I’m going to advise in opposition to it.

When you’ve got precisely two days, spend each in Naples. We did Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius from the town, and I’m glad we did, however we had 4 nights to play with. Any of them prices you the higher a part of a day when you’ve added the Circumvesuviana journey, the queues and the strolling, and the worth is paid within the metropolis itself: the itinerary above doesn’t survive dropping half of it. Naples deserves its personal 48 hours, and the ruins will preserve for an extended journey.

When you’ve got three days or extra, otherwise you’re merely to not be talked out of it, right here’s the lie of the land:

Pompeii and Herculaneum are reached on the Circumvesuviana regional line from Napoli Garibaldi (a couple of euros every method; the €5 prime fare will get you all the best way to Sorrento in about 70 minutes). Pompeii is the overwhelming, full-day epic; Herculaneum is smaller, higher preserved and kinder to a half day. Every thing you have to plan both, tickets to routes, is in our full information to visiting Pompeii. For those who’d fairly have the logistics dealt with totally, a guided day tour from Naples bundles transport, entry and each headline sights.

Vesuvius may be mixed with Herculaneum: Circumvesuviana to Ercolano Scavi, then a shuttle up the mountain and a 20-odd minute stroll to the crater rim. Crater entry is €10 and a timed slot booked prematurely on the official Vivaticket page is necessary; there are not any tickets on the gate.

Capri runs from Molo Beverello, proper by the town centre: hydrofoils take 45 to 50 minutes and value roughly €25 to €29 every method with a number of operators competing. In summer season, ebook the morning boat out fairly than turning up hopeful. It’s a protracted day however a doable one, and a guided Capri day trip kinds the boats and timing for you.

Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast deserve greater than a day journey full cease. That very same €5 Circumvesuviana will get you to Sorrento, on the coast’s doorstep, and our Amalfi Coast itinerary covers how we’d construction an extended go to. For those who’re constructing an extended journey round all of this, our 10 day Italy itinerary is the place to start out.

 

When to Go to Naples

Naples is a year-round metropolis in a method the close by coast merely isn’t; it doesn’t shutter in winter like Positano does. Even so, the candy months are April to June and September to October, when it’s heat sufficient for the Lungomare at golden hour and funky sufficient to get pleasure from being wedged right into a pizzeria.

July and August are critically sizzling, and the dense previous city holds the warmth; if summer season is your solely window, construction your days like this itinerary does, with the indoor and underground stops within the early afternoon.

Winter is quiet, low cost and nonetheless completely workable, with the museums to your self on the drizzly days. The Tuesday rule applies regardless of the season, after all.

 

Photographing Naples

A number of notes with my photographer hat on, as a result of Naples spoils you.

The one finest viewpoint is the ramparts of Castel Sant’Elmo, ideally late afternoon when the sunshine rakes throughout the town and Vesuvius holds its form in opposition to the haze. The traditional body is the view alongside Spaccanapoli, slicing by means of two thousand years of buildings.

On the road, the Centro Storico is all about layers: washing strains, shrines, scooters, faces. The alleys are surprisingly darkish even at noon, so one thing quick helps, and also you’ll use a large angle way over a protracted lens.

Toledo station’s escalator shaft is the one inside everybody shoots, and it earns it. And golden hour belongs to the Lungomare, taking pictures again throughout the harbour to Castel dell’Ovo with the volcano behind. Sundown from up at Sant’Elmo is superb too, however test closing occasions in opposition to your season, and keep in mind the pizza queues you might be standing in as a substitute.

For extra common method, my journey images ideas apply all over the place the scooters aren’t actively aiming at you.

 

Map of This Naples Itinerary

Each cease on this information, daily, plus the pizzerias, is on the map under. You may as well see this map on Google Maps here.

 

Regularly Requested Questions About Visiting Naples

 

Is 2 days sufficient for Naples?

Sure, for the town itself. Two full days covers the Centro Storico, the Cappella Sansevero, MANN, Vomero’s fort viewpoint and the waterfront at a civilised tempo, with time to do the meals justice.

What two days doesn’t cowl is the encompassing area. Pompeii, Vesuvius or Capri every want most of an additional day, so if these are in your checklist, plan three or 4 days with Naples as your base.

 

Is Naples price visiting?

We predict so, emphatically. It’s the birthplace of pizza, dwelling to one of many world’s nice archaeological museums, and probably the most characterful large metropolis in Italy, all with a volcano throughout the bay.

It’s rougher and louder than Florence or Rome. For those who can settle for a metropolis that hasn’t been polished for guests, it repays you with meals, environment and costs the polished cities can’t match.

 

Is Naples protected for vacationers?

Sure, with regular big-city consciousness. The principle vacationer areas are busy and well-trodden in any respect hours, and violent crime in opposition to guests is uncommon.

The lifelike threat is pickpocketing in crowds, on the metro and on the Circumvesuviana. Preserve telephones and wallets zipped away within the busy alleys and also you’ve addressed many of the drawback. We wandered broadly with digital camera gear over 4 days with none points.

 

Are you able to do Pompeii as a day journey from Naples?

Sure, simply. The Circumvesuviana prepare from Napoli Garibaldi drops you on the entrance in properly underneath an hour, and guided day excursions bundle transport with entry and a information.

On a 2-day go to we’d nonetheless suggest in opposition to it, as a result of it prices you half your metropolis time. Our Pompeii information has every thing you want when you go, or for a future journey.

 

The place ought to I keep in Naples for a primary go to?

Keep central, in or on the sting of the Centro Storico, which places the entire itinerary on foot and offers you the previous city’s night environment. Decide a resort on a bigger avenue close to By way of Toledo or Piazza Bellini when you’d like a calmer base.

Chiaia is the most effective various: elegant, quieter and on the seafront, about 20 minutes’ stroll from the previous city. We’d keep away from basing a primary go to round Napoli Centrale station.

 

What’s the finest pizzeria in Naples?

For the benchmark margherita, L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele. For the well-known identify on the pizza avenue, Gino Sorbillo at By way of dei Tribunali 32. For skipping the queues totally, the road window at Di Matteo promoting pizza a portafoglio.

All three are within the Centro Storico. Arrive at opening time or mid-afternoon to maintain waits brief.

 

What day are museums closed in Naples?

Tuesday. MANN, the Cappella Sansevero and the Certosa di San Martino all shut on Tuesdays as of 2026, so don’t plan your museum day for one.

Castel Sant’Elmo stays open every day, and the Duomo, the streets and the meals scene don’t take days off, so a Tuesday in Naples nonetheless works high-quality; simply construction it across the out of doors sights.

 

Is the Campania ArteCard price it?

Usually, sure. The Napoli 3-day card (€27) contains 3 website entries and 72 hours of metropolis transport, which roughly pays for itself with MANN, another paid website and your transport.

For those who’re including Pompeii, Herculaneum or Vesuvius, get the Campania 3-day card (€41) as a substitute. It’s the one model that covers the Circumvesuviana regional trains together with 2 main website entries.

 

How do I get from Naples airport to the town centre?

The Alibus shuttle runs from straight outdoors arrivals to Napoli Centrale station and on to the port, taking round 20 to half-hour relying on site visitors. It’s the only possibility.

Official taxis function mounted tariffs to the centre; verify the mounted fee is being utilized earlier than you set off.

 

Do you want a automobile in Naples?

No, and we’d actively suggest in opposition to one. The centre is walkable, the metro and funiculars cowl the hills, restricted site visitors zones make driving a authorized minefield, and parking is scarce.

Daily journey on this information is reachable by prepare or ferry. In case your wider Italy itinerary wants a automobile, decide it up in your method out of the town.

 

Additional Studying and Planning Sources

Hopefully this has helped you intend your individual two days in Naples! We’ve lots extra Italy content material to assist with the remainder of your journey:

And that’s our tackle two days in Naples: chaotic, scrumptious, often exasperating and utterly price it. For those who’ve been, otherwise you’re planning a visit and have questions, tell us within the feedback under, we at all times get pleasure from listening to from you!