Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Naples, Italy

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Number of sights 42 sights
Distance 10.4 km
Ascend 366 m
Descend 378 m

Experience Naples in Italy in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in NaplesIndividual Sights in Naples

Sight 1: Chiesa di San Bartolomeo

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The church of San Bartolomeo is a deconsecrated church in Naples, located in Via San Bartolomeo, a few steps from Via Depretis and Piazza Municipio.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Bartolomeo (Napoli) (IT)

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 2: Chiesa della Pietà dei Turchini

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The Church of Pietà dei Turchini is a religious building in Naples, Italy. A smaller church, located on Rua Catalana, was built originally in 1592–1595 by the Confraternity of the Incoronatella. This church was nearly destroyed by an explosion in the Castel Nuovo in 1638. It was rebuilt in 1638–1639, and retitled Santa Maria Incoronatella della Pietà dei Turchini when it acquired a dome. The facade was completed in 1769–70 by Bartolomeo Vecchione.

Wikipedia: Pietà dei Turchini (EN)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Santa Maria della Graziella

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The church of the Graziella al Porto Napoli or Santa Maria delle Grazie al Porto Napoli is a small Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy. The church is just behind the church of Pietà dei Turchini, on vico Graziella al Porto. It is accessible through narrow alleys from via Medina, along the church of San Diego all'Ospedaletto and the former Royal Conservatory, but also by pedestrian alleys from via Guglielmo San Felice and via De Pretis. It is located in the rione San Giuseppe Carità.

Wikipedia: Graziella al Porto Napoli (EN)

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di Santa Brigida

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Santa Brigida is a church located on Via Santa Brigida in central Naples, Italy. The church is a few doors down from one of the entrances to the Galleria Umberto I.

Wikipedia: Santa Brigida, Naples (EN)

127 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Teatro Augusteo

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The Augusteo Theater is a theater complex in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Teatro Augusteo (IT), Website

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena delle Convertite Spagnole

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The church of Santa Maria Maddalena delle Convertite Spagnole is a historic place of worship in Naples.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena delle Convertite Spagnole (IT)

71 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di Sant'Anna in Rosario di Palazzo

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Sant'Anna di Palazzo is a church in the quartiere of San Ferdinando in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Anna di Palazzo (EN)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Pantaleone

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The church of San Pantaleone is a place of worship in Naples, located in the Spanish quarters, in via San Pantaleone.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pantaleone (Napoli) (IT)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa di Santa Teresella degli Spagnoli

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The church of Santa Teresella degli Spagnoli is one of the churches of historical and artistic interest in Naples closed to worship; it is located in the street of the same name, in the Spanish Quarters. The

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Teresella degli Spagnoli (IT)

393 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie

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The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is one of the main late Baroque churches in Naples; it is located on the edge of the Mondragone square.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie (Piazzetta Mondragone) (IT)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di San Carlo alle Mortelle

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San Carlo alle Mortelle is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in central Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Carlo alle Mortelle (EN)

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone

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Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone is a Baroque-style church in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone (EN)

571 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa dell'Immacolatella a Pizzofalcone

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The Church of the Immacolatella in Pizzofalcone is a religious building in Naples, Italy, located in Salita Echia, on the hill of Pizzofalcone, in the San Ferdinando district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Immacolatella a Pizzofalcone (IT)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Chiesa di Santa Maria Egiziaca a Pizzofalcone

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Santa Maria Egiziaca a Pizzofalcone is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic, Basilica church on the street of the titular name in the hill of Pizzofalcone, in the historic center of Naples, region of Campania, Italy. The church layout was initially designed by Cosimo Fanzago.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Egiziaca a Pizzofalcone (EN)

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Museo artistico industriale Filippo Palizzi

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The "Filippo Palizzi" Industrial Art Museum is a museum in Naples, Italy, established at the end of the nineteenth century by Gaetano Filangieri, Prince of Satriano.

Wikipedia: Museo artistico industriale Filippo Palizzi (IT)

325 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Basilica di San Francesco di Paola

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Basilica di San Francesco di Paola

San Francesco di Paola is a prominent church located to the west in Piazza del Plebiscito, the main square of Naples, Italy. The construction started in 1816 and ended in 1846.

Wikipedia: San Francesco di Paola, Naples (EN)

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Museo Giuseppe Caravita principe di Sirignano

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The MUSAP - Museo Artistico Politecnico is an Italian museum based in Naples, at the palace of Cardinal Zapata, in Piazza Trieste e Trento n. 48.

Wikipedia: Museo Giuseppe Caravita principe di Sirignano (IT), Website

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa di San Ferdinando

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The Church of San Ferdinando is a historic church located on the Piazza Triesti e Trento, near the Royal Palace of Naples, in central Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Ferdinando (church), Naples (EN)

191 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Galleria Umberto I

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Galleria Umberto I is a public shopping gallery in Naples, southern Italy. It is located directly across from the San Carlo opera house. It was built between 1887 and 1890, and was the cornerstone in the decades-long rebuilding of Naples—called the risanamento —that lasted until World War I. It was designed in the Stile Umbertino by Emanuele Rocco, who employed modern architectural elements reminiscent of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The Galleria was named after Umberto I, King of Italy at the time of construction. It was meant to combine businesses, shops, cafés and social life—public space—with private space in the apartments on the third floor.

Wikipedia: Galleria Umberto I (EN)

48 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Museo del Corallo Ascione

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Museo del Corallo Ascione ascione / GFDL

The Museo del Corallo is a small private museum of coral jewellery in Naples, in Campania in southern Italy. It also holds some cameos and jewellery in ivory and tortoiseshell. The works date from 1805 to 1950.

Wikipedia: Museo del Corallo (EN), Website

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Teatro di San Carlo

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The Real Teatro di San Carlo, as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is a historic opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice.

Wikipedia: Teatro di San Carlo (EN), Website

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Piazza del Plebiscito

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Piazza del Plebiscito is a large public square in central Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Piazza del Plebiscito (EN)

4 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: Naples

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Naples is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 30 kilometres. Naples plays also a key international role in international diplomacy, since it is home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.

Wikipedia: Naples (EN)

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Fontana delle Conchiglie

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The Fountain of the Shells is a historic fountain in Naples, located in the Molosiglio gardens in Via Acton.

Wikipedia: Fontana delle Conchiglie (IT)

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Giardini del Molosiglio

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The Molosiglio gardens are a public park in Naples located in via Acton, in the San Ferdinando district in the stretch of promenade between the maritime station and the seafront.

Wikipedia: Giardini del Molosiglio (IT)

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: Basilica di Santa Lucia a Mare

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The minor pontifical basilica of the sanctuary of Santa Lucia a Mare is a monumental church in Naples, Italy, which was constituted as a parish and at the same time had the dignity of a sanctuary and, more recently, decreed a minor basilica. The basilica-sanctuary is located in the district of Santa Lucia, within the historic center of Naples. Always a pilgrimage destination, it was erected as a parish in the second half of the 1700s and, in the second half of the 1900s, elevated to a diocesan sanctuary dedicated to the popular cult of Saint Lucia. Administratively, the parish is included in the third deanery of the archdiocese of Naples.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santa Lucia a Mare (IT)

331 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 27: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Catena

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Santa Maria della Catena or Santa Maria del Porto is a church in Borgo Santa Lucia of Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria della Catena, Naples (EN)

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 28: Monte Echia

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Monte Echia

Monte Echia is a rocky outcrop, entirely in yellow tuff, located in the Pizzofalcone area, in the San Ferdinando district of Naples.

Wikipedia: Monte Echia (IT)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 29: Chiesa della Concezione al Chiatamone

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Chiesa della Concezione al Chiatamone Baku / CC BY-SA 3.0

The church of the Conception at Chiatamone is a seventeenth-century church located in Naples, in via Chiatamone.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Concezione al Chiatamone (IT)

474 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 30: Monumento ai Caduti del Mare

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The broken column or monument to the fallen at sea is one of the monumental columns of the historic center of Naples, located in Piazza della Vittoria.

Wikipedia: Colonna spezzata (IT)

246 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 31: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria

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The church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Naples, is located in one of the most beautiful areas of the seafront.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria (Napoli) (IT)

487 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 32: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Mercede presso Sant'Orsola a Chiaia

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Sant'Orsola a Chiaia is a church in largo Sant'Orsola in the quartieri of Chiaia in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Sant'Orsola a Chiaia (EN)

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 33: Chiesa di Santa Caterina a Chiaia

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Chiesa di Santa Caterina a Chiaia

Santa Caterina a Chiaia is a Roman Catholic church located on via Santa Caterina 76 in Naples, Italy. It is located near Piazza dei Martiri in the Chiaia section of the city, near where Via Santa Caterina flows toward the tree-shaded Via Chiaia.

Wikipedia: Santa Caterina a Chiaia (EN)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 34: Chiesa Luterana di Napoli

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Chiesa Luterana di Napoli Baku / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Lutheran Church of Naples is a Protestant church in the Neapolitan city; it is located in via Carlo Poerio, 5.

Wikipedia: Chiesa luterana di Napoli (IT)

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 35: Fontana di Lucio Papirio

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The Fountain of Orestes and Electra, traditionally referred to as the Fountain of Lucius Papirius, is one of the nine fountains located inside the Villa Comunale of Naples.

Wikipedia: Fontana di Lucio Papirio (IT)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 36: Fontana di Santa Lucia

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The Santa Lucia fountain is one of the monumental fountains of Naples and is located in the municipal villa.

Wikipedia: Fontana di Santa Lucia (Napoli) (IT)

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 37: Fontana della Tazza di Porfido

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Fontana della Tazza di Porfido

The fountain of the Porphyry Cup is located in Naples in the Villa Comunale, in the center of a large square.

Wikipedia: Fontana della Tazza di Porfido (IT)

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 38: Flora Capitolina

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The Fountain of the Capitoline Flora is one of the historic fountains of Naples located in the Royal Villa.

Wikipedia: Fontana della Flora Capitolina (IT)

233 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 39: Chiesa di San Pasquale a Chiaia

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The church of San Pasquale a Chiaia is one of the historic churches of Naples; stands on the square of the same name in the Chiaia district.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Pasquale a Chiaia (IT)

449 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 40: Villa Comunale

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The Villa Comunale is a park in Naples, Southern Italy. It was built in the 1780s by King Ferdinand IV on land reclaimed along the coast between the main body of the city and the small port of Mergellina. The park was originally a "Royal Garden", reserved for members of the royal family, but open to the public on special holidays such as the Festival of Piedigrotta. The park was opened to the general public on a permanent basis in 1869 after the unification of Italy.

Wikipedia: Villa Comunale (EN)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 41: Gruppo Europa

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The fountain of the rape of Europa is one of the historic fountains of Naples; it is located in the Villa Comunale.

Wikipedia: Fontana del ratto di Europa (IT)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 42: Obelisco - Meridiana

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The Sundial Obelisk, originally the Gnomon of the Sundial, is one of the obelisks of Naples.

Wikipedia: Obelisco meridiana di Napoli (IT)

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