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Napoli
Naples is Italy's third-largest city, a dense port on the Bay of Naples below Mount Vesuvius, credited as the birthplace of pizza. Its UNESCO-listed historic center holds hundreds of churches, the San Carlo opera house and narrow lanes like Spaccanapoli, while Pompeii and Herculaneum sit a short train ride away.
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| Attraction | Entrance | Time | Why go |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naples Historic Center (Spaccanapoli) | Free | 2-3 hours | The dense, UNESCO-listed old town centered on the straight Spaccanapoli decumanus, lined with baroque churches, palazzi, and street shrines laid out on the original Greek and Roman city grid. |
| Naples National Archaeological Museum (MANN) | โฌ20 | 2 hours | One of the largest collections of Greco-Roman antiquities anywhere, holding the Farnese marbles and the wall paintings and mosaics excavated from Pompeii and Herculaneum. |
| Cappella Sansevero | โฌ12 | 30-45 minutes | A small baroque chapel-museum holding Giuseppe Sanmartino's marble Veiled Christ and other 18th-century sculptures commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero. |
| Pompeii | โฌ20 | 3-4 hours | The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79 and excavated since the 18th century, with streets, houses, and plaster casts of victims preserved under volcanic ash; a day trip about 40 minutes from Naples by train. |
| Royal Palace of Naples | โฌ15 | 1-1.5 hours | The former royal residence of the Bourbon kings on Piazza del Plebiscito, with state apartments, a court theatre, and the adjoining national library. |
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