Self-guided walking tour
Naples Walking Tour: Sanità and Capodimonte – Tombs, Stairs and a Royal Park (about 3.5 hours, 7 stops)
7 stops in walking order through Naples, from Real Bosco di Capodimonte to Cimitero delle Fontanelle: 4.4 km on foot, about 53 min of walking, 3 h 15 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Sanità and Capodimonte: Tombs, Stairs and a Royal Park”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 3 h 15 min
- Distance
- 4.4 km
- Walking
- 53 min
- Stops
- 7
The stops, in walking order
Reggia di Capodimonte
A royal palace set within a park and now houses Naples’s principal museum of paintings and other post-ancient art.
17 min walk · 1.4 km
Ipogeo dei Cristallini
An underground funerary complex containing Hellenistic tombs beneath Naples.
1 min walk · 110 m
Palazzo dello Spagnuolo
A historic palace celebrated for its theatrical staircase, whose paired flights and shifting arches create a striking spatial composition.
8 min walk · 670 m
Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples occupies a building that began as a cavalry barracks in 1585 and later housed the University of Naples from 1616 to 1777.
10 min walk · 890 m
Catacombs of San Gaudioso
The Catacombs of San Gaudioso are underground Christian burial chambers beneath Santa Maria della Sanità.
11 min walk · 970 m
Cimitero delle Fontanelle
The Fontanelle Cemetery is an underground ossuary carved into the tuff hillside of Materdei, holding about 40,000 human remains linked to plague, cholera, poverty, and burial customs.
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