Day 01
Historic Centre of Naples Walking Tour
- Meet your tour guide at the spire of Piazza del Gesù. After visiting Gesù Nuovo Church and Santa Chiara Church and cloister, the walking tour heads to the eastern side of the city.
- Enjoy a walk along Via Benedetto Croce to Piazza San Domenico. Here, you can stop for a good espresso, a local pastry - the highly recommended sfogliatella - or a cappuccino at two of the city's historic bars.
- From there, continue to Sansevero Chapel (optional), where you can admire the "Veiled Christ," an eighteenth-century masterpiece of sculpture by the local artist Giuseppe Sammartino.
- Move on to the next stop, the small Piazzetta Pietrasanta, surrounded by old buildings from different periods and archaeological remains.
- Visit the Church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco. In addition to the church itself, you will have the chance to visit its underground area, a kind of cemetery where visitors can see the remains of victims of the plague epidemics that frequently affected Naples in the past.
- Reach Piazza San Gaetano and visit San Lorenzo Church, where there is also the optional chance to explore the underground archaeological site of the forum of the ancient Graeco-Roman town of Neapolis.
- After visiting San Lorenzo Church and its archaeological area, walk along Via San Gregorio Armeno, where workshops and artisan shops create the world-famous small Christmas nativity scenes known as the "presepi" of San Gregorio Armeno.
