Ischia
Wedged in between Ischia Porto and Ischia Ponte is the island's most down-to-earth seaside beach – think colourful vintage fishing boats, soccer matches…
Must-see attractions in Campania
Capri
Expensive and hugely popular beach club opposite the Isole Faraglioni where you can grab a few sq metres of rocky terrain and a beach umbrella for upwards…
Naples
Soaring high above beautiful Piazza del Gesù Nuovo is Giuseppe Genuino's lavish Guglia dell'Immacolata, an obelisk built between 1747 and 1750. On 8…
Naples
Taking centre stage on elegant, operatic Piazza di San Domenico Maggiore is this 18th-century obelisk. The work of Cosimo Fanzago, Francesco Antonio…
Pompeii
The ruin of Pompeii's main entrance is at Porta Marina, the most impressive of the seven gates that punctuated the ancient town walls. A busy passageway…
Sorrento
Built in the 14th century, the Palazzo Correale features a fetching Gothic-Catalan facade, complete with mullioned windows in dark tuff stone. The window…
Capri
This giant natural cave on the Passeggiata del Pizzolungo was used by the Romans as a nymphaeum (shrine to the water nymph). You can still see traces of…
Sant’Agata sui Due Golfi
Located in the centre of the village, enjoy the cool decorative interior of this 17th-century parish church, famed for its polychrome marble altar, an…
Praiano
In the upper village, the 16th-century Chiesa di San Luca features a colourful majolica floor, paintings by the 16th-century artist Giovanni Bernardo Lama…
Pompeii
One of Pompeii's ancient city gates, Porta Ercolano was designed with three passageways. While the central one was used for vehicles, the two peripheral…
Naples
The starting point for the deadly plague of 1656, it was on this very square that more than 200 supporters of the ill-fated Parthenopean Republic of 1799…
Naples
Piazzetta Orefici is the main square of the Borgo Orefici, a small, labyrinthine district that has housed goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellers since…
Naples
Seat of Naples University's architecture faculty, this elegant 16th-century palazzo is one of the most significant examples of Renaissance architecture in…
Bay of Naples
This noble house would originally have opened onto Cardo II (as yet unearthed). Its porticoed garden opens onto a triclinium (dining room) and other…
Naples
It's in this 16th-century palazzo that Neapolitan musician Carlo Gesualdo murdered his unfaithful wife, Maria d'Avalos, and her handsome lover, Don…
Bay of Naples
Named after the elegant brick Corinthian columns that flank its main entrance, the House of the Large Portal is home to some well-preserved wall paintings.
Museo dell'Osservatorio Vesuviano
Mt Vesuvius
About halfway up the hill, the museum tells the history of 2000 years of Vesuvius-watching.
Porta Marina Entrance & Ticket Office
Pompeii
One of two main entrances to the ruins of Pompeii, located an 80m walk south of the Pompei Scavi–Villa dei Misteri Circumvesuviana train station.
Museo Archeologico Provinciale della Lucania Occidentale
Salerno & the Cilento
A modest collection of ancient artefacts, housed within the Certosa di San Lorenzo monastery.
Capri
The ruins of this medieval Saracen defence tower are located at the eastern end of Marina Piccola. It's not open for visits.
Chiesa di Madre di Buon Consiglio
Naples
Chiesa di Madre di Buon Consiglio is a snack-sized replica of St Peter’s in Rome completed in 1960.
Capri
The striking flat-roofed red villa on the Punta Massullo promontory is Villa Malaparte, the former holiday home of Tuscan writer Curzio Malaparte (1898…
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
Ischia
Check out this church’s 18th-century baroque extravaganza, with its fetching peach-coloured facade, semicircular chapels and elevated terrace popular with…
Capri
This rugged stone tower, halfway along the road between Anacapri and the Faro (lighthouse), was constructed in 1378 by monks of the Certosa di San Giacomo…
Capri
This ruined medieval fort on Capri's west coast was reconstructed by the French in the early 19th-century. It acts as a useful landmark on the Sentiero…
Capri
Ruined fort on Capri's west coast dating mostly from the early 19th century that acts as a usful landmark on the Sentiero dei Fortini trail.
Capri
Ruined fort on Capri's west coast dating mainly from the early 19th century that acts as a landmark on the Sentiero dei Fortini trail.
