Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Naples, Italy

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10.9 km
Ascend 427 m
Descend 202 m

Experience Naples in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in NaplesIndividual Sights in Naples

Sight 1: Chiesa dell'Immacolata e Sant'Anna al Vasto

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The Church of the Immaculate Conception and Sant'Anna al Vasto is a church in Naples, Italy, located in Via Nazionale 33.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dell'Immacolata e Sant'Anna al Vasto (IT)

1189 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 2: San Felice in Pincis

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San Felice in Pincis Deca16894 / CC BY 4.0

The church of San Felice in Pincis is a historic church in Naples, Italy, located in Vico della Vicaria.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Felice in Pincis (IT)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Sacro Monte dei Poveri

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The Chapel of the Congregation of Monte dei Poveri is a Baroque-style chapel located on Via Tribunali in central Naples, Italy. The chapel is closed for services.

Wikipedia: Chapel of the Congregation of Monte dei Poveri (EN)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di San Gennaro a Sedil Capuano

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The church of San Gennaro in Sedil Capuano is a monumental church in Naples, located in vico Sedil Capuano.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gennaro a Sedil Capuano (IT)

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli

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Santi Apostoli is a Baroque-style church in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Santi Apostoli, Naples (EN)

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Giovanni a Carbonara

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San Giovanni a Carbonara is a Gothic church in Naples, Southern Italy. It is located at the northern end of via Carbonara, just outside what used to be the eastern wall of the old city. The name carbonara was given to this site allocated for the collection and burning of refuse outside the city walls in the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni a Carbonara (EN)

3 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di Santa Monica

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The Chapel of Santa Monica is a fifteenth-century chapel that was part of the complex of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples.

Wikipedia: Cappella di Santa Monica (Napoli) (IT)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Chiesa di San Gioacchino a Pontenuovo

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The church of San Gioacchino in Pontenuovo is a monumental church in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gioacchino a Pontenuovo (IT)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Chiesa della Pietatella a Carbonara

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The church of the Pietatella in Carbonara is a sacred building in Naples, located in Via Carbonara and contiguous to the church of San Giovanni a Carbonara.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Pietatella a Carbonara (IT)

15 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa della Consolazione a Carbonara

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The Church of the Consolation in Carbonara is a Baroque church in Naples, located under that of San Giovanni a Carbonara.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Consolazione a Carbonara (IT)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di San Carlo all'Arena

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San Carlo all'Arena is a Roman Catholic church built in a Baroque-style layout with a Neoclassic façade, and located on via Foria in the quartiere or neighborhood of the San Carlo all'Arena, in the city of Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Carlo all'Arena (church) (EN)

493 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa del Gesù delle Monache

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Gesù delle Monache is a Roman Catholic church located near the Porta San Gennaro in central Naples, Italy. Over the years, the church was also a parish church known as San Giovanni Evangelista in Porta San Gennaro or San Giovanni in Porta.

Wikipedia: Gesù delle Monache (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Ruffi

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San Giuseppe dei Ruffi or church of San Giuseppe dei Ruffo is a church located on piazzetta San Giuseppe dei Ruffi, in Naples, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Giuseppe dei Ruffi (EN)

105 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Basilica di Santa Restituta

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Santa Restituta is a church in Naples, southern Italy, dedicated to Saint Restituta. The foundation of the basilica is attributed to the Emperor Constantine the Great in the 4th century and is mentioned in a passage from the life of Pope Sylvester I in the Liber pontificalis:

Wikipedia: Santa Restituta (EN)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Chiesa dei Girolamini

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The Church and Convent of the Girolamini or Gerolamini is a church and ecclesiastical complex in Naples, Italy. It is located directly across from the Cathedral of Naples on via Duomo. The facade is across the homonymous piazza and street from Santa Maria della Colonna. It is one block west of Via Duomo.

Wikipedia: Girolamini, Naples (EN), Website

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 16: Cappella Pontano

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Cappella Pontano

The Pontano Chapel is a small Renaissance temple in Naples located in the ancient center of the city, along the major decumanus, between Via del Sole and Via dei Tribunali. The church of Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta is also located near the building.

Wikipedia: Cappella dei Pontano (IT)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Church of San Domenico Maggiore

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The Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore is a monumental church in Naples, located in an almost central position with respect to the lower decumanus, in the square of the same name.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Domenico Maggiore (Napoli) (IT)

125 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Croce di Lucca

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Croce di Lucca

The church of the Croce di Lucca is a religious edifice in central Naples, Italy, on the Via dei Tribunali.

Wikipedia: Croce di Lucca, Naples (EN)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: San Pietro a Majella

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San Pietro a Majella is a church in Naples, Italy. The term may also refer to the adjacent Naples music conservatory, which occupies the premises of the monastery that used to form a single complex with the church.

Wikipedia: San Pietro a Majella (EN)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Gesù Nuovo

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Gesù Nuovo is the name of a church and a square in Naples, Italy. It is located just outside the western boundary of the historic center of the city. To the southeast of the spire, one can see a block away the Fountain of Monteoliveto and the piazza of the church of Sant'Anna dei Lombardi. The square is a result of the expansion of the city to the west beginning in the early 16th century under the rule of Spanish viceroy Pedro Alvarez de Toledo. The square of Gesù Nuovo contains three prominent landmarks:The Church of Gesù Nuovo The Church of Santa Chiara The spire or guglia of the Immaculate Virgin

Wikipedia: Gesù Nuovo (EN)

360 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: San Michele Arcangelo

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San Michele Arcangelo or San Michele a Port'Alba is one of four major churches facing Piazza Dante in Naples, Italy. It stands near Port'Alba, a city gate opening to the piazza.

Wikipedia: San Michele Arcangelo, Naples (EN)

229 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: San Domenico Soriano

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The church of San Domenico Soriano takes its title from the miraculous image of San Domenico Soriano and is one of the monumental churches of Naples located in Piazza Dante. Here St. Nunzio Sulprizio was buried, whose body is placed on the high altar and following his canonization in 2018 the church changed its name to the church of Saints Domenico Soriano and Nunzio Sulprizio

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Domenico Soriano (IT)

519 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 23: San Giovanni Battista delle Monache

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San Giovanni Battista delle Monache is a former Roman Catholic church located in Via Costantinopoli 106 in central Naples, region of Campania, Italy.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Battista delle Monache (EN)

774 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 24: Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Vecchi e Immacolata di Lourdes

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The church of San Giuseppe dei Vecchi is a monumental church in the historic center of Naples.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Vecchi (IT)

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: Chiesa di San Potito

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Chiesa di San Potito Giuseppe Guida / CC BY-SA 4.0

San Potito is a church in Naples dedicated to Potitus, who was tortured to death in Epirus or Ascoli in 166. It is located on the San Potito hill on via Tommaso Salvatori.

Wikipedia: San Potito, Naples (EN)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 26: Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Nudi

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The church of San Giuseppe dei Nudi is one of the monumental churches of Naples, it stands in the street of the same name.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Nudi (IT)

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardo e Margherita

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The Church of Saints Bernardo and Margherita is a monumental church in Naples, Italy, located in Via San Giuseppe dei Nudi. The building is incorporated into the Sovereign Military Order of Malta's Complex, and is also known as St. John's Church of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Bernardo e Margherita (IT)

682 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 28: Basilica di Santa Maria della Pazienza

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The sanctuary of Santa Maria della Pazienza is a complex founded in 1601 and consisting of an ancient hospital and the basilica church of the same name; It stands in Naples in Piazza Cesarea, in the Avvocata district, near the Santissima Trinità alla Cesarea.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santa Maria della Pazienza (IT)

1300 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 29: Basilica Pontificia di San Gennaro ad Antignano

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The minor pontifical basilica of San Gennaro in Antignano is one of the monumental churches of Naples. it stands in the V Municipality of Arenella-Vomero, in the Vomero District, in via San Gennaro ad Antignano nº 82.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Gennaro ad Antignano (IT)

1252 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 30: Castel Sant'Elmo

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Castel Sant'Elmo is a medieval fortress located on Vomero Hill adjacent to the Certosa di San Martino, overlooking Naples, Italy. The name "Sant'Elmo" derives from a former 10th-century church dedicated to Sant'Erasmo, shortened to "Ermo" and, finally altered to "Elmo". Located near the upper terminus of the Petraio, one of the city's earliest pedestrian connections between upper and lower Naples, the fortress now serves as a museum, exhibition hall, and offices.

Wikipedia: Castel Sant'Elmo (EN)

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