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Day itinerary · 40.84° N · 14.25° E
High-speed train to Naples, the Veiled Christ in the Sansevero Chapel, the guided visit beneath Via dei Tribunali, Spaccanapoli on foot and lunch in a trattoria from 1943 next to the station.
Part of Naples
The plan
Any part can be swapped for another without spoiling the day.
High-speed train from Roma Termini to Napoli Centrale
book the time slot on the museum's website · €12 · closed on Tuesdays
Spaccanapoli eastwards and San Gregorio Armeno
guided departure at 12:00 on Piazza San Gaetano · Italian or English
+39 081 296944
for one to three people, no booking and in order of arrival; confirm the hours by phone
Via Alfonso D'Aragona, 19-21, 80139 Napoli · +39 081 553 8525
a pizza for the train, if there is still room
Via Cesare Sersale, 1, 80139 Napoli · +39 081 553 9204
high-speed train from Napoli Centrale to Roma Termini
Adds up the activities and meals in the plan at their published prices; travel and accommodation not included.
The route
Naples fits into a day from Rome if you stay in the historic centre. The high-speed train takes a little over an hour, the station is twenty minutes' walk from the decumani and everything this plan suggests is done on foot: a Baroque chapel with the city's most famous sculpture, a guided visit underground, a walk along Spaccanapoli and a Neapolitan lunch by the station before heading back.
7:45 · Train to Naples. Frecciarossa or Italo from Roma Termini to Napoli Centrale, about an hour and ten. From the station, the metro to the centre or about twenty minutes on foot.
9:30 · Sansevero Chapel. The Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino, the marble that looks like a wet sheet, and the two anatomical machines in the basement. Admission costs €12 and booking is compulsory: buy the 9:30 slot on the museum's website. Closed on Tuesdays. Allow about 45 minutes with the Spanish audioguide.
10:30 · Spaccanapoli. Go out onto Via Benedetto Croce and walk east along San Biagio dei Librai. Detour along San Gregorio Armeno, the nativity-scene street, to Via dei Tribunali.
12:00 · Napoli Sotterranea. The midday departure, in Italian or English, goes down 40 metres to the cisterns of the Greco-Roman aqueduct and the wartime shelters. Groups of fewer than ten people do not need to book: turn up a few minutes early at Piazza San Gaetano 69, next to San Paolo Maggiore. A good hour.
13:45 · Lunch at Mimì alla Ferrovia. Head back towards the station and eat at the trattoria the Giugliano family opened in 1943: parmigiana, pasta mista with potatoes and provola, spaghetti with clams and babà. For one to three people there is no booking; for four to ten, yes, on its website. The website does not publish the opening hours: confirm by phone before the trip.
16:00 · A pizza for the road. If you have room, L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele is about ten minutes from the station and open all day.
17:30 · Train to Rome. You reach Termini before a quarter to seven.
Where to eat
Lunch is half the plan: book before you set off.
What to order: for a starter, the parmigiana di melanzane or the peperoni 'mbuttunati; then pasta mista, patate, provola e guanciale, and babà for dessert.
What to order: the margherita or the marinara; if you cannot decide, the marita, half and half.
What to order: the six-course Posillipo menu, or the five-course Lino Fai Tu if you want the chef to decide.
Map
With where to park at each one.
Getting there
When to go
All year: almost everything is indoors or underground. The Sansevero Chapel is closed on Tuesdays; choose another day. In summer, the streets of the centre are hot at midday.
Tips
The morning slots sell out first, and it is the only thing in the day that requires a booking.
It is cooler below ground than on the street.
It is about three kilometres on cobbles, with stairs at Napoli Sotterranea.
Questions
For the historic centre, yes: with the high-speed train you have about seven hours in the city. Pompeii or Vesuvius need another day.
The Sansevero Chapel, yes, always. Napoli Sotterranea only if you are ten or more. At Mimì, only tables of four or more.
Tuesday, because the Sansevero Chapel is closed.
They usually love the underground visit. Beware of the very narrow passages if you are claustrophobic.
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