Once known as Parthenope, from the name of the Siren who founded it, Naples is a unique city in the world. There are some many things to see in Naples, that choosing some out of them is really difficult!
Nominated in 2019, by the famous Lonely Planet guide, as the coolest city in Italy, Naples is alive, charming and irresistible. It is a place where beauty, faith and superstition, history and modernity coexist and show themselves in a real “theater of life” in which voices, colors, scents and unique views blend each others like nowhere else.

Naples is a city of a thousand beauties, from a historical and architectural point of view, with many museums, churches and archaeological excavations.
Among them, the historic center of Naples stands out. So rich in history, art and culture that UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site.
But let’s go into details about this wonderful city.
Spaccanapoli is the street that goes from the Spanish Quarters to the Forcella district. The name of this street can be understood by walking up to San Martino and looking at how it cuts straight into Naples.
This place is the soul of Naples, here stand ancient buildings, churches, but also the legends and the unforgettable scents of Neapolitan cuisine.

It is very hard to make a list of all the all the churches of Naples, there are so many and all of them are gorgeous. Among them the there is the church of San Francesco and Paola located in the spectacular Plebiscito square. The church of del Gesù Nuovo located in Gesù square is a baroque style church, characterized by the works of Ribera, Fanzago and Giordano.. The Church of San Domenico Maggiore, a few meters from Spaccanapoli is a real combination of Gothic and Baroque art.
Do not miss the Monastery of Santa Chiara, the Certosa of San Martino, the San Severo chapel, where you can find the “Veiled Christ”.
For centuries, quarries of tuff have been excavated and stones have been used to build the city. For such reason, Naples hides caves and tunnels that speak about story of the city.
This is Napoli Sotterranea, that can be visited from Via dei Tribunali, where you can find the classic route that crosses the Greek-Roman aqueduct, air-raid shelters, the War Museum, underground gardens and the “Arianna” Seismic Station. The visit to the nearby Roman Theater of Nerone is quite uncommon, as its access is from a private house, by moving a bed under which a trap door is hidden! Always excavated underground, but for different reasons, is the Galleria Borbonica, commissioned in 1853 by Ferdinando II di Borbone.
Naples is rich in historical buildings, and many Castles stand out. First of all, Castel dell’Ovo, which takes its name from a legend of Virgil who discovered inside the castle an egg that bears the whole structure of the building and and if it breaks the castle would collapse and cause serious damage to the whole city.
The Castle of Maschio Angioino, with its five towers and a marble triumphal arch, inside you can visit the monumental Sala dei Baroni, in you can find the Civic Museum.
Either the Royal Palace of Naples, where the National Library resides, and the San Carlo Theatre, the oldest active theatre in the world, are top landmarks for those who want to visit Naples.
Naples is full of intriguing corners that could be found walking from Piazza Plebiscito, one of the symbols of Naples. After a brief stop at the elegant Caffe Gambrinus, continue through Via Chiaia or Via Toledo, two of the city’s main shopping areas, then reach Spaccanapoli where there is also San Gregorio Armeno, his famous Cribs street.

It might be strange that, in a city full of history, also the Metro stations are included in the “top to see list”. Naples has an outdoor museum distributed in subway stations. The result is the so-called “Metro of Art”, a project to make public mobility places more welcoming and pleasant, having some of the most beautiful works of contemporary art accessible to everybody.
The journey can start from the new Garibaldi Station, which joins the Naples Central Station. Here, the French urban planner Perrault designed a station with suspended escalators in which glass and steel prevail. We arrive at Università, then there is Municipio and then Toledo, considered by many the most beautiful station in Europe. The work Relative Light by Robert Wilson is illuminated by extraordinary play of blue lights. Do not miss also Dante station, Museo, Materdei and the following ones. More than 200 works by contemporary artists can be admired with a metro ticket. A unique path in the world, that cannot be missed.
The ancient soul of Naples mixes with the Street Art of local and international talents. A Bansky masterpiece: a blue-gray Madonna, with a gun instead of a halo, Jorit Agoch created a huge portrait of Maradona on the southern facade of a public building. On the opposite side of the building stands the largest Che Guevara portrait ever made, and in the Spanish Quarters Cyop & Kaf created more than 220 murals.
A city that enchants you and surprises for its amazing beauty, Naples is history and art, but it is also a state of mind that guide you through streets and neighbourhoods.