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Naples Underground
A guided walk 40 meters below the streets, through Greek quarries, Roman cisterns and wartime air-raid shelters.
- Open
- Every day, by guided tour
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Piazza San Gaetano 68, 80138 NaplesDirections
- Getting There
- On Via dei Tribunali, in the historic center.
Why Go
The Greeks quarried the soft tufa stone under the city to build it, and the Romans turned the cavities into cisterns fed by an aqueduct. In the Second World War, Neapolitans sheltered from the bombing in the same tunnels.
Tours squeeze through narrow, candlelit passages, and some visit the remains of a Roman theater hidden under the houses above.
Tips
- Some passages are very narrow; skip it if you're claustrophobic.
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