Things to do in Naples & Pompeii

Naples is loud, layered and full of character. Its UNESCO-listed historic centre follows the street plan of the Greek city, and beneath it runs a maze of ancient cisterns and tunnels. Above ground you find baroque churches, a majolica-tiled cloister at Santa Chiara and some of Italy's best street food.

Across the bay rises Mount Vesuvius, whose eruption in AD 79 buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. Both sites are under an hour from the city by train, and a road climbs most of the way up the volcano so you can walk to the crater rim.