Naples, Italy Walking Tours

Underground Naples for Families

• Teach your kids about Naples ancient history with a 2 1/2-hour walking tour of the underground sites of Naples. Your guide will be an ancient historian or archaeologist who will describe in engaging terms life in Naples as a powerful Greek city and as a Roman center of commerce. You'll slip down a hidden staircase underneath a Gothic church and enter an ancient city with cobble-stoned streets, bakeries and stores showing what life was like in ancient Naples. Next, you'll wander through another underground Greco-Roman city and observe the ancient walls, water pipes and remains of an early Christian church from 2,000 years ago.

  Context Travel
  Via Cedronio
  Naples, NA 80132
  Italy
  011-39-81-06-9762-5204
  contexttravel.com

Neapolitan Landscapes

• If you are looking for a walking tour that will explore Naples in-depth, try a day-long Neapolitan Landscapes tour with Select Italy. Your day will begin at one of the highest points in Naples, the Hill of Vomero, with beautiful views over the bay. At the base of the hill, you can shop for glass, jewelry and other Neapolitan crafts before visiting an ancient fisherman's village. Then, you'll walk along the Bay of Naples for stunning views of the sea, gardens, villas and a panoramic look at Naples' famous volcano, Mount Vesuvius. Depending on the number of participants in your walking tour, the English-speaking tour guide will meet you at your cruise ship, your hotel or at a central location specified when your reservation is confirmed.

  Select Italy
  303 W. Erie St., Suite 410
  Chicago, IL 6065
  800-877-1755
  selectitaly.com

Napoli Sotterranean

• Take an underground walking tour of Naples guided by members of the L.A.E.S., an organization that preserves the Naples underground and safeguards the history of this area. Naples is the only linked-level city in the world, where a newer city is connected to an older underground city. Your 60-minute English-speaking tour walks you through the underground first built by the Greeks in 470 B.C. and describes the areas the L.A.E.S. has located and restored since 1979. For recent history buffs, the tour focuses on the use of the underground tunnels as air raid shelters by 4,000 people during WW II. Tours are conducted on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at meet at the Trieste e Trento square.

  LAES - Napoli e la Citta Sotteranea
  Vico S. Anna di Palazzo, 52
  Napoli, NA 80132
  Italy
  011-39-081-400-256
  lanapolisotterranea.it