Piazza del Plebiscito forms the grand centrepiece of the city. It’s flanked on its east side by the Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) and by a semi- circular colonnade and the church of San Francesco di Paola on the other. Behind the church on the hill of Monte di Dio, tightly packed housing is .... Click Here for More The oldest part of the city is also the most hectic. Scooters, students and street sellers vie for attention with enormous numbers of churches and grand old palazzi. But between the noisy streets a few beautiful cloisters provide some welcome respite. The university area is just to the south and .... Click Here for More The partly pedestrianized via Toledo (still called via Roma by many, though it hasn't officially been called this for years) is one of Naples' main roads, connecting the two centres of the city and containing many of Naples' high-street shops. It is also a dam, holding back the maze of tiny stre .... Click Here for More Corso Umberto I, the rettifilo (straight line), runs southwest from the ugly (but pretty much unavoidable) transport hub of piazza Garibaldi to piazza Giovanni Bovio, and is a soulless thoroughfare, almost always busy with traffic. To the north is the university, with small but interesting museu .... Click Here for More Heading north from the centre of the city you climb ever upwards along via Toledo, which goes through several name changes before reaching the hillside Parco di Capodimonte, a green escape above and behind the city, with Naples' greatest and biggest art collection, including important paintings .... Click Here for More Head west from piazza del Plebiscito along the increasingly smart via Chiaia and you will find yourself in piazza dei Martiri, a focus point for the more up-market end of town which starts here and swings around through Chiaia along the Rada Caracciolo seafront to the yacht-filled marina and por .... Click Here for More On the hill directly behind the city centre is Vomero, a newer area of town, with decent shops and a good park in Villa Floridiana. Its main attractions are older, however: the Castel Sant’Elmo and the monastery of the Certosa di San Martino, with its excellent museum, overlook the city fro .... Click Here for More Pompeii and Herculaneum are generally top of people’s Roman lists, but the area also has the sunken and crumbling mysteries of Pozzuoli, Baia and Cuma to extend the ancient theme. Parts of the Sorrento Peninsula remain wonderfully wild or languorously agricultural and Sorrento itself is aty .... Click Here for More Towering to the east of Naples, Vesuvius is a constant presence and climbing to its top is an impressive experience. Its victims from nearly 2000 years ago, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Oplontis form a one-off exhibit of the Roman world stopped in its tracks. The well-known attractions of .... Click Here for More West of Naples’ ugly suburbs, steaming volcanic landscapes and the remains of some of the earliest Greek and Roman settlements exist side-by-side and often of top of each other. Pozzuoli is a pleasant enough place, without ever being exactly picturesque. Where once was Italy's mos .... Click Here for More Perched on a plateau above the sea, Sorrento is a seaside town strangely detached from the sea. It's there, but it's a long way down, or perhaps more pertinently, a long way back up afterwards. In a day here you're likely to hear as many English voices as you would in a month in Naples. The Gran .... Click Here for More Somehow managing to retain an atmosphere of chic insouciance even in the face of a tourist onslaught, Capri has remained a playground for the privileged for the last two hundred years, just as it was in Roman times. Capri Town's tiny piazzetta, filled with nonchalant waiters, the well-dressed an .... Click Here for More The island of Ischia, once home, at least in mythology, to Typhon, creator of volcanoes, has had no volcanic activity since 1883. But many of its springs still run warm and there is a thriving spa industry. The biggest island in the bay, and one where tourism arrived later than on Capri, Ischia .... Click Here for More It's not hard to see why Procida is popular as a film set (parts of Il Postino and The Talented Mr Ripley were filmed here). The island has a worn, photogenic appeal: the jumbled sun-bleached and peeling pastel painted houses with their external stairs have an air of authenticity that is often m .... Click Here for More In their days as maritime powers, between the ninth and 12th centuries, Positano was Amalfi's poorer neighbour. Now, however, the situation is very much reversed, and the town is the rich kid of the Amalfi Coast. Its hotels have more stars, its restaurants are more expensive, and its boutiques c .... Click Here for More There is little in its popularity as a contemporary holiday destination and its picturesque setting to suggest that Amalfi was ever much more than a pleasant fishing town with some nice old churches and buildings. In fact, between the 9th and 12th centuries, it was an independent republic with a .... Click Here for More This town of mainly traffic-free lanes, villas and gardens, high walls and panoramic views down to the coast below has a superior air and has long been a destination for the rich and famous. Its quiet streets have played host to all manner of élite personages: the Bloomsbury group stayed in .... Click Here for More Of all the extraordinary sites around Naples, Paestum is both the most awesome and the most romantic. In a peaceful setting on plains to the south of Salerno, with mountains rising up in the distance, three enormous Greek temples stand in a rural landscape surrounded by the ruins of their city, .... Click Here for More
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