What do you know about Naples ?

Question

I want to visit Napoli and I want to know the best places , restaurants , shops , events there ?

Answer 1

My family is from Naples :)

Answer 2

Nice location close to Rome and the sea.  Awesome archeological city.

Answer 3

i visited Naples twice a long time ago,but i still keep a very

nostalgic souvenir of it,as if it were your home town.

i can't give names of places,i remember Zi Teresa restaurant and the most famous and very cheap pizza place with wooden benches and the pizzaiolo bring his oven full of piazza napolitana on his wooden ladle and serve you immediately.i can never fotget the taste of it.

don't forget to visit Ischia island,which i preferred to Capri.

Answer 4

a good place to shop for fashion, clothing and shoes, it's a lot cheaper than the other Italian cities but a lot more cheaper and just as fashionable. The national museum is good too, but you'll appreciate it more if you have been to Pompeii and Herculaneum, as the main artifacts are discovered in these 2 places and to make the best of it is to join the tour so you know the history, what's special about some of the more prominent artifacts, what to look for etc. It's a great city, but lots of garbage. I was there in May and the city had a garbage collection problem, check and see if it's resolved. Try to avoid the bad areas and like all other Italian cities, be careful of pick-pockets!

Answer 5

NAPLES - is Italy's most controversial city: You'll either love it or hate it. Is it paradiso or the inferno? It's louder, more intense, more unnerving, but perhaps ultimately more satisfying than almost anywhere else in Italy. Naples has made world headlines for its cultural renaissance and its fight against crime. Despite Mafia-directed crime, political corruption, prostitution, street hoodlums, chaotic traffic, and pervasive unemployment... etc.

The capital of the region and, indeed, of the whole Italian south. Maybe you will have the feeling that you're somewhere unique makes it possible to endure the noise and harassment, Maybe it's the feeling that in less than three hours you've travelled from an ordinary part of Europe to somewhere akin to an Arab bazaar. Perhaps the feeling that you're somewhere unique makes it possible to endure the noise and harassment, perhaps it's the feeling that in less than three hours you've travelled from an ordinary part of Europe to somewhere akin to an Arab bazaar. Football, too, is a religion here.

☻Music, also, has played a key part in the city's identity: there's long been a Naples style, bound up with the city's strange, harsh dialect - and, to some extent, the long-established presence of the US military: American jazz lent a flavour to Neapolitan traditional songs in the Fifties; and the Seventies saw one of Italy's most concentrated musical movements in the urban blues scene of Pino Daniele ( MY FAVE NEAPOLITAN SINGER and HIS SONGS ARE THE BOMB!) and the music around the radical Alfa Romeo factory out at Pomigliano. New rock groups are also born in Naples every month, and interest in traditional Neapolitan music is also increasing.

☻Neapolitan cuisine consists of simple dishes cooked with fresh, healthy ingredients . Also, as Naples is not primarily a tourist-geared city, most restaurants are family-run places used by locals and as such generally serve good food at very reasonable prices. There's no better place in Italy to eat pizza (especially PIZZA MARGHERITA), at a solid core of almost obsessively unchanging places that still serve only the (very few) traditional varieties. You're never far from a food stall for delectable snacks on the move, or you can always pick something up from the city's street markets in La Forcella or the fish market at Porta Nolana.

☻Nightlife:

A sunset walk through Santa Lucia and along the waterfront is one of the lasting pleasures in Naples. You can stroll by the glass-enclosed Galleria Umberto I, off Via Roma across from the Teatro San Carlo. The 19th-century gallery is still standing today, although it's a little the worse for wear. It's a kind of social center for Naples, with lots of shopping and dining possibilities. On its nightclub/cabaret circuit, Naples offers more sucker joints than any other Mediterranean port. If you're starved for action, you'll find plenty of it -- and you're likely to end up paying for it dearly.

☻Shopping

The shopping in Naples can't compare to that in Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome. Nevertheless, there are some good buys for those willing to seek them out. The finest shopping area lies around Piazza dei Martiri and along such streets as Via dei Mille, Via Calabritto, and Via Chiaia. There's more commercial shopping between Piazza Trieste e Trento and Piazza Dante along Via Toledo/Via Roma.

☻Special Events

Maggio dei Monumenti (May of Monuments) is sponsored by the Council of Naples, with events occurring every weekend during the month. Each year the theme is slightly different. One of the most interesting parts of this event is a series of guided walks through the historic district, even through the city's underground passages. May is also the month for a variety of exhibits and fairs. Chamber music recitals, concerts, operettas, performances of classic Neapolitan songs, and even soccer matches and horse races add to the celebration. If you're in Naples in May, consult the tourist office for a full program of events, some of which are free.

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Answer 6

It has almost as many historic places as Rome.

Avoid the area where the navy ships dock.

The city is as big as New York, I spend a year there long ago, just eat in the mom and pop places, its the greatest food on earth!

Answer 7

I love this city so much..Their way of life, similar to ours in Greece...Naples is full of minuments and entertainment...First of all Pompey, the city phantom...Second, the archeological museum, the museum of Capodimonte, the museum of Vomero,and the places as Mergellina, Posilipo, via orazio which are wonderful (especially via orazio on the hills of Naples).

Vomero is so nice, between the most elegant cities..

In the centre, piazza Plebiscito, very famous,and also il palazzo reale, it is really great...

Dont forget to visit also Orto Botanico, santa maria di Constantinopoli, and surely the cathedral of Saint Gennaro, the saint protectpr of the city.

If yoyu go for Christmass, Naples is famous for the presepe napoletano, you ll see....

However,i have to advise you to avoid places such as ferrovia(train station)in the night, piazza Garibaldi, the destricts of Sanita, Vergini, or quartiere degli spagnoli...Certainly, nothing is going to happen to you, nothing happened to me also, but never hold so much money on you, not bads, not camera, not jewellery in some specigfic areas...Also in the rails station of circumvesuviana...

Outside Na[ples if you have the chance go to vist the Amalfi coast, Sorrento, Salerno, and dont miss Caserta, and the palace of it...

Have a nice time, in a wonderful city...

Answer 8

great pizza..seriously. :)