Self-guided walking tour

Naples Walking Tour: Skulls, Saints and the Nile God (about 3 hours, 5 stops)

5 stops in walking order through Naples, from Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore to Chiesa di Santa Luciella a San Biagio dei Librai: 760 m on foot, about 9 min of walking, 2 h 45 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 “Skulls, Saints and the Nile God”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 2 h 45 min
Distance: 760 m
Walking: 9 min
Stops: 5

The stops, in walking order

Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore
San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church and monastery built over an ancient Roman market, with an archaeological site beneath the complex and a museum devoted to the area’s history.
2 min walk · 200 m
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco
Purgatorio ad Arco is a Baroque church whose decoration turns devotion to purgatory into vivid imagery, with winged skulls, a major altarpiece, and paintings by leading Neapolitan artists.
3 min walk · 250 m
Cappella Sansevero
A chapel devoted to Santa Maria della Pietà, filled with celebrated eighteenth-century works including Giuseppe Sanmartino’s Veiled Christ.
2 min walk · 170 m
Statua del dio Nilo
The Statue of the Nile God is an ancient Roman marble sculpture showing a reclining, bearded river deity with a cornucopia, sphinx, crocodile, and child figure.
2 min walk · 140 m
Chiesa di Santa Luciella a San Biagio dei Librai
Santa Luciella is a compact church dedicated to Saint Lucia, with a history reaching back before 1327.