Naples Essentials

The stops

1. 

   Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore

   ~15 min here

   San Domenico Maggiore is a church and monastery belonging to the Dominican Order, opening onto the square that shares its name in Naples’ historic centre.

2. 

   Basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore

   ~15 min here

   San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church and monastery, and beneath it lies the excavated ancient market of Naples.

3. 

   Basilica di Santa Chiara

   ~15 min here

   Santa Chiara is a basilica within a wider religious complex containing a monastery, royal tombs and an archaeological museum.

4. 

   Cappella Sansevero

   ~1 hr here

   Cappella Sansevero is a chapel devoted more formally to Santa Maria della Pietà, and it holds an extraordinary collection of eighteenth-century sculpture and painting.

5. 

   Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

   ~15 min here

   Naples Cathedral is the city’s main church, a Roman Catholic cathedral and the seat of its archbishop.

6. 

   Galleria Umberto I

   ~3 min here

   Galleria Umberto I is a grand public shopping gallery, built to bring commerce and sociability into a single civic interior.

7. 

   Palazzo Reale

   ~3 min here

   Palazzo Reale is the historic royal palace occupying Piazza del Plebiscito, with its main entrance opening onto the square.

8. 

   Quartieri Spagnoli

   ~3 min here

   Quartieri Spagnoli is a historic district of Naples, shaped by a military purpose and still lived in as an intensely urban neighbourhood.

9. 

   Teatro di San Carlo

   ~3 min here

   Teatro di San Carlo is Naples’s historic opera house, joined to the Royal Palace and beside Piazza del Plebiscito.

10. 

    Via San Gregorio Armeno

    ~3 min here

    Via San Gregorio Armeno is a historic street famous for its artisan workshops making nativity figures.

More walks in Naples

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• Weird & UnusualSkulls, Saints and the Nile God5 stops · ~2 hr 45 min · 765 mSee the walk
• Hidden GemsSanità and Capodimonte: Tombs, Stairs and a Royal Park7 stops · ~3 hr 5 minSee the walk
• Royal HeritageRoyal Naples and the Seafront8 stops · ~1 hr 5 minSee the walk
• Food & DrinkPizza, Nativity Workshops and Market Streets5 stops · ~1 hr 5 min · 3.0 kmSee the walk
• Gardens & ViewsUp to the Vomero: Quartieri Spagnoli to Sant’Elmo3 stops · ~20 minSee the walk
• Coast & ViewsPosillipo: Gaiola and the Pausilypon3 stops · ~1 hr 40 min · 2.8 kmSee the walk