Naples is the capital city of Campania, and Italy's national tourism site describes its historic centre as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. XTOUR maps the National Archaeological Museum inside the city and keeps Pompeii (in the comune of Pompei), Herculaneum (in Ercolano) and Mount Vesuvius as separate places rather than places in the city.
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Italy
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City
Understand the place
Not only where to go, but what to eat, what things cost, what visitors get wrong, how accessible Naples is, which scams to recognize and what is genuinely worth your time.
The complete guide
Start with the parts of Naples that matter most to your trip, then move into the practical details.
Experiences & attractions
Attractions, experiences and places actually worth your time.
Eat like you understand the place
Signature dishes, local drinks, markets and eating well.
Where to stay & explore
Where to stay, wander and choose the right area for your trip.
Beyond the destination
Nearby places worth a day out from here.
Bring home the right things
What is genuinely worth buying and where to look.
After dark
What the evenings are like, and where to spend them.
Family travel
Family logistics, strollers, transport and practical planning.
When to go
When to visit and what the seasons really feel like.
Know before it happens
Common tourist traps and how to avoid them.
Money & budgeting
Budgets, payments and everyday prices.
Transport
Public transport, taxis, walking and common pitfalls.
Travel for more people
Mobility, transport and sensory accessibility.
Understand before you arrive
Local expectations, religion and visitor etiquette.
The details that matter
Connectivity, health, photography and useful local details.
Find your fit
Solo, women alone, older visitors, LGBTQ+, pets, remote work, budget and luxury.
Travel that holds up
Tourism pressure, supporting local people and animal welfare.
Traveler experiences
Traveler reviews will appear here after moderation.
Worth the drive
Distances are straight-line, not driving time — mountain roads in this region are often twice as long as the map suggests.
Museum · Campania
The Royal Palace of Naples is the former royal palace on Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, now a museum with the royal apartments, the Museo della Fabbrica, the Museo Caruso and the palace gardens.
Fortress · Campania
Castel Nuovo, also called the Maschio Angioino, is a castle by Piazza Municipio in Naples, run by the Comune di Napoli and home to the city's Museo Civico.
Fortress · Campania
Castel dell'Ovo is a castle on the islet of Megaride on the Naples waterfront, joined to Via Partenope by a bridge.
Museum · Vomero, Campania
The Certosa di San Martino is a former Carthusian monastery on Largo San Martino, on the Vomero hill in Naples, that now houses a museum.
Museum · Campania
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) is a museum on Piazza Museo in Naples whose core collections are the Farnese collection and finds from the towns buried by Vesuvius in AD 79.
Museum · Campania
The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte is a national art museum in the Bourbon royal palace on the Capodimonte hill in Naples, with the palace's historic park, the Real Bosco.
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7 guides
Italian food is organised around places, and Italy's protected food names write much of that into law: 331 agricultural products carry a DOP or IGP name, and four more are protected as traditional specialities. This guide explains what DOP, IGP and STG mean, why a city's name on a label is not the label's area, and how Naples, Bologna, Modena and Siena show up in the register.
XTOUR plans Italy around city bases rather than regions: Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Palermo, Genoa, Bolzano, Pisa and Siena. This guide says what each base is for, which major sites are in a city and which are only reached from one, and where XTOUR's more detailed guides take over.
The same eruption of Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in different ways, and that is why the two sites look so different today. This explainer sets out what the two archaeological parks and published research say about how each town was buried and what survived.
Pompeii and Herculaneum are two Roman towns buried by the same eruption, now run by two separate archaeological parks; Vesuvius is the volcano, and its crater path is run by a national park. None of the three is in Naples, and each operator publishes its own visiting rules.
Tuscany is one of Italy's twenty regions, not a city: Florence is its capital, and Pisa and Siena are separate towns inside it. This explainer sets out how Italy's regions, provinces, metropolitan cities and municipalities fit together, why the English and Italian names differ, and why XTOUR records cities rather than regions.
Italy's two best-known volcanoes are visited under very different systems: one national-park trail with timed online tickets at Vesuvius, and a patchwork of mayors' ordinances tied to a volcanic alert system at Etna. This explainer sets out who makes the rules on each mountain, what the official pages said on 9 October 2026, and what XTOUR does not know.
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