Naples

Campania

Loud, real, under Vesuvius

Food

Volcano

About Naples

Naples wraps around a wide bay with Vesuvius on the far shore, the busiest, loudest and most itself of Italy's big cities.

Its centre is a UNESCO grid laid out by the Greeks, with Roman streets underneath and baroque churches, washing lines and Maradona murals on top. Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri and the Amalfi Coast are all a train or a ferry away.

It's chaotic, generous and theatrical, a city that is lived in rather than shown, with a football club it treats as a religion.

Eat pizza where it was invented, a sfogliatella still warm from the oven, and a paper cone of fried seafood from a street window.

Get to Naples

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Buses from Naples

Day trips from Naples

Half day
Pompei & Ercolano
~20–40 min by the Circumvesuviana
The two Roman towns Vesuvius buried in 79 AD. Pompeii is a whole city of streets, villas, frescoes and bakeries; Herculaneum, smaller and closer, lay under deeper ash and kept its upper floors and even carbonised wooden beams.
Half day
Capri
~50 min
The limestone island at the mouth of the bay: the Faraglioni rocks, the Blue Grotto, the piazzetta of Capri town and a chairlift from Anacapri to the top of Monte Solaro.
Day trip
Vesuvio
~1 h
The volcano that buried Pompeii, quiet since 1944 but still watched round the clock. From the car park a short, steep path climbs to the rim of the crater, with the whole bay of Naples below.
Day trip
Ischia
~1 h
The volcanic island of the bay and Italy's spa island: thermal gardens with pools of different temperatures, hot springs running into the sea, and the Castello Aragonese on its own rock.
Day trip
Costiera Amalfitana
~1 h 30 min , longer by summer
Positano, Amalfi and Ravello stacked on cliffs above the sea along one of the world's most famous coastal roads, a UNESCO site. Lemon terraces, small pebble beaches and the Path of the Gods high above the water.