10 Local Spots in Naples Tourists Don't Know About
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele
1 Via Cesare Sersale, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80139, Italy
There are only two things on the menu: margherita and marinara.
Lungomare (Waterfront Promenade)
Via Partenope, Municipalità 1, Naples, 80121, Italy
The Lungomare di Napoli is regularly cited as one of the most beautiful urban waterfront walks in the world, and for once the hype is justified.
Maradona Mural & Shrine
Via Emanuele de Deo, Municipalità 2, Naples, 80134, Italy
In the narrow streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli, there is a shrine to a man who is not a saint by any official measure, but try telling that to the Neapolitans who leave candles, flowers, scarves, and prayers here every day.
Piazza Dante
Municipalità 2, Naples, Italy
Before it was Piazza Dante, this was the Largo del Mercatello — the "little market" — and for centuries it was where Naples came to buy, sell, argue, and occasionally riot.
Pizzeria Sorbillo
Via dei Tribunali 32, 80138 Naples
Gino Sorbillo is the 19th of 21 children, all born to pizza-making parents, who were themselves born to pizza-making parents.
Rione Sanita
Rione Sanità, 80136 Naples
This is the neighborhood Naples forgot, and then remembered just in time.
Spaccanapoli
Via Benedetto Croce / Via San Biagio dei Librai, 80134 Naples
Stand on the hilltop terrace of Castel Sant'Elmo and look down, and you'll see it immediately: a single straight line slicing the entire old city in half like a surgical cut.
Spanish Quarter (Quartieri Spagnoli)
Quartieri Spagnoli, 80134 Naples
The grid of narrow streets climbing the hillside west of Via Toledo was built in the 16th century to house Spanish troops garrisoned in Naples, and it has been considered dangerous by polite society ever since.
Via San Gregorio Armeno
Via San Gregorio Armeno, 80138 Naples
Every December, this narrow street becomes one of the most densely packed places in Italy, but the artisans who work here operate year-round, hunched over workbenches carving, painting, and assembling the elaborate nativity scenes — presepi — that Neapolitans take more seriously than almost anything else.
Via Toledo
Via Toledo, 80134 Naples
Stendhal called this the most populated and gayest street in the world, and while 19th-century French novelists had a tendency toward hyperbole, he wasn't entirely wrong.
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