The tradition of eating in Naples can be established from the fact that Pizza was for the first time was made in Naples. Eating a Pizza in Naples is a different experience instead of eating it at some other place. If one wishes to enjoy a pizza in Naples then he should go for and after Pizzeria Brandi where the “pizza margherita” was born. However at the present time some attractive places to eat Pizza in Naples are Da Michele or Trianon a Forcella. Other than eating Pizza in Naples one can take taste of other Neapolitan cuisine mostly featuring seafood, befitting its status as an ancient and still functioning port.

• Ciro a Mergellina: It is an exclusive first rate contemporary, middle class, informal restaurant that is situated at the crossing of the two of the best neighborhoods in Napoli, Mergellina and Posillipo. Its reputation is established for a place visited by the more aristocratic people. The people arrive at restaurant in small family groups, with dates and other business associates but to see and be seen but to eat. One can taste there anything including mozzarella that has pasta cresciuta (fritters) with alghe (seaweed) or cicinielli (just-born fish). Some say the pizza is the best in Napoli, but several places have that reputation.

• Mimì alla Ferrovia: It is a very famous restaurant situated close to the main railway station.  It is a welcoming, friendly, helpful service provider and definitely favors many well-heeled regulars. There is no such menu and you would have to take advice from the waiter.  There you can have fish, pasta and other traditional Neapolitan dishes that are even too great too taste and enjoy.

• La Cantinella: It is a fancy restaurant and a bit expensive as it portrays a street level view of the bay from around the window tables. The food there occurs to be mostly traditional Neapolitan with touches of “Continental” but is artistically is prepared and served. It is considered by Neapolitans as the best restaurant, real restaurant in the city. It remains busy at lunch however is less busy at dinner.

• Ciro a Santa Brigida: It is quite a fancy restaurant that has a traditional food and good pizza in a separate side pizzeria. There many local businessmen and many shoppers can be seen around during lunch. It remains less busy at the dinner time.

• Pizzeria Bellini: Bellini is the restaurant situated close to Port Alba that is one of the entrance points to the old city, off pizza. It’s great for people watching and also for antipasti and pizza. Other dishes which are served here include notably spaghetti with seafood baked in parchment. One can dine there either cramped upstairs room or an even more cramped downstairs area. Most of the crowd here is arty and highly cultured citizens from fashionable neighborhood inside the old city walls.

• Masaniello: It is a small trattoria-like restaurant on Riviera di Chiaia that is one of the promising streets along the bay and its public park, Villa Communale. Close to it is located the fancy shopping area, Piazza dei Martiri. The ingredients in the restaurant are of the highest quality and kitchen has some of the best and fine dishes with simplicity. Here one can have buffalo mozzarella, great seafood salad, some salami and/or prosciutto.

• Giuseppone a Mare: This is a seaside Posillipo restaurant that has its face towards Vesuvius as one can have beautiful view of the sea front and beautiful colorful boats. It is good for its exotic seafood and fish.

• Da Dora: It is a small unprepossessing restaurant situated on tiny street off the main street that runs behind the Villa Communale, which is Naples biggest park that runs parallel along the sea. There every cab driver knows Da Dora. Every concierge knows Da Dora. It has the reputation of having the most impeccable fish in the city.  As there are not much tables at restaurant, therefore it is better for a person to arrange a reservation before going to restaurant. It open for both   lunch and dinner and during both meals, you will be entertained by a postegiatore, a traveling musician who plays guitar and sings Neapolitan songs. You can try there new-born fish, neonati or fragagile.  All the fried items in the restaurant are wonderful. More you can order spaghetti with clams. More you can enjoy pasta that is cooked much firmer way a person of accustomed to.

• Europeo di Mattozzi: It is one of the Naples’ most favorite restaurants and persons from the nearby financial center of the city come there during lunch.  The old-time atmosphere, with copper cookware hanging on one wall, a hodgepodge of mostly mediocre paintings hanging on another, and some ceramics hanging on the other place makes it a restaurant worth dining. The restaurant is been owned by the Mattozzi family for around 100 years. For eating one can try their fried items like stupendi that includes fried zucchini flowers, fried neonati, and newborn fish. Seafood salad, insalata di mare will also shock you with its sea flavor.

Naples is a truly, ahop o shopping place with every thing to be into ones approach and access like Clothes, shoes and leather goods of any types that are relatively less  inexpensive and that are too be used and worked with the latest fashion trends. The historic center of Naples offers ample opportunity to go for shopping requirement and need for shoppers for any sort of shopping exclusivity.

In the historic center of Naples there are offered many places for shopping, crafts, antiques, souvenirs and other typical type of products ranging from Neapolitan and Italian cuisine. There over and around small streets of the historic city there one can have delicacies, beautiful ceramic ware in bright colors and handmade nativity figurines which too are an important factor for visiting shops in Naples. However, entire shopping experience in Naples can be divided into following sections:

• Shopping Streets in Naples: With respect to shopping street in Naples there are three main streets that are very popular among shoppers. They are Via Toledo, Via Chiaia, and Via dei Mille. In the Via Toledo that is the longest shopping streets you can get a good number of boutiques, department stores, and branches of big chains. On the same street at its pedestrian area there is located Galleria Umberto I, that is impressive for having neoclassical architecture with what it is impressively has been designed.  There at the end of the pedestrian area there one could look at or can enjoy elegant Café Gambrinus in the Belle Epoque style. It shows up a part of Naples’s history.

• Via Scarlatti situated at the quarter of Vomero located on a hill, you can even go for shopping in most elegant boutiques and shoe stores in Via Luca Giordano at other smaller pedestrians’ areas. Close there it is located one Villa Floridiana Park, where a person can take extensive rest and can enjoy beautiful sight seeing.

• Markets in Naples: Next important stage for marketing in Naples is its market and that are outstanding in its ambience and stature. There at Naples makert you can have a colorful mixture of skirts just fluttering and roaming around in the wind. There at the markets in Naples you can have fresh vegetables, beautiful pottery- and household articles, high-quality textiles, as well as second-hand goods. Among the markets in  Naples, the prominent one are easy-to-reach market on the Vomero, that provides textiles, shoes, handbags, household articles, second-hand clothes, and a roofed-over food market. The next important market in Naples is Mercato di Posillipo which is situated at the parkway lined with stone pines, whether you can have a great view of the Gulf of Naples and is Naples’s most elegant places.

• The streets of festivity and gaiety: If you wish to have real tradition and approach to culture of Venice then you should look at famous street of the nativity scene makers, in Naples’s historic city, the Via San Gregorio Armeno. There you can admire a good number of shops with creative nativity figurines at levels. There at the festivities you would have opportunity to look at Jesus and Madonna figurines. More you can have household objects like gastronomic delights, exotic animals, and sometimes even caricatured politicians.

• Shopping in the Historic City: The historic city of Naples provides array of shopping experience. It provides a good number of places to shop mostly for items and activities like crafts, antiques, and souvenirs. One can easily get there ceramic ware in bright colours and the handmade nativity figurines. There at historic city in Naples handicrafts has existed from quite a long period in history. In the Via San Sebastiano across the Monastero di Santa Chiara you can have many music stores which sale out items like mandolins, for conservatory being closer to them. There too close is situated street of booksellers, Via Port’ Alba that stores and offers both antique books around the Naples of the past.

The Via San Gregorio there in the region is a must visit market and is a nativity scene makers. It is quite interesting to note that there around half a million people gathers here to celebrate and to visit shops filled with original miniature figurines. The market though remains open through out the year. The store there always remains open all year around.   The store at 42 is especially popular for its copies of famous politicians.  Worth looking there are also the creative booths along Spaccanapoli , from Via Benedetto Croce up to the Piazza San Domenico. Not only can you have your fortune told from Tarot cards; you can also buy poems, local delicacies, and photos of actors and sports idols. Sometimes, Neapolitan artists go there to sing their folk songs.

Naples, one of Italy’s most import cities has reputation of being fully spectacular for its landmarks and monuments. Renowned world over many of Naples’ monuments even dates back to 1,000 years and are yet in good condition. Here we are discussing about some of the best landmarks of Naples.

• Albergo dei Poveri: It is a former public hospital/ almhouse in Naples and was designed by the architect Ferdinando Fuga. It is a five story building and has entire length of 300 meters.  It was popularly known as “Palazzo Fuga”. King Charles III was therefore aimed to construct this building for poor, destitute and ill people. Initially, the building was developed with five courtyards and a church in the center. Situated at the center of Naples, this building has been included in UNESCO World Heritage List.

Albergo dei Poveri

•   San Francesco di Paola: It is a church in Naples and is situated at the west end of Piazza del Plebiscito, as being the main square of the city. At the start of 19th century this church was planed by King Joachim Murat of Naples, the brother in Law of Napolean. The church looks a like and is replica of Pantheon in Rome.  Its front rests on six columns and two Iconic pillars. The interior of the church is circular with two side chapels. Its dome is 53 meters high.

•   Cappella Sansevero: It is a chapel north of the church of San Domenico Maggiore in the historic center of Naples. It is known for keeping works of the leading Italian artists from the 18th century.

•   Castel dell’Ovo: It is castle situated on an earlier island of Mega ride that has developed into a peninsula on the Gulf of Naples. The castle was built by the Normans in the 12th century.  Though the value of the castle declined when Charles I of Anjou created a new castle, Castel Nuovo, and moved his court there. In the 1800s a small fishing village (Borgo Marinari) developed around the castle’s eastern wall and presently known for its marina and restaurants. . The castle is rectangular in shape (approximately 200 by 45 metres at its widest) and has a high angular bastion looking towards the causeway. Within the walls there are many buildings which are used for exhibitions and other special offers.

Napoli castel dell ovo

•   Castel Nuovo: It is many times also termed as Maschio Angioino and the main center of architecture of the Naples. Nuovo has been expanded or renovated several times since it was first begun in 1279.

castel nuovo naples

•   Certosa di San Martino: It is a former monastery complex which has been developed into a museum.  Due to its location at the top of Vomero hills towards the gulf has made it a very visible site in the city. The Museum within building shows up Spanish and Bourbon era artifacts as well as shows Nativity scene, considered to be best in the world.

•   National Museum of Capodimonte: The National Museum of Capodimonte (Italian Museo di Capodimonte) is located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples.  The museum has the best collection of  Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important Ancient Roman sculptures.

National Museum of Capodimonte

•   Santa Chiara: The Church of Santa Chiara is a Gothic church/convent constructed around 1328 for the wife of King Robert of Anjou. The church complex keeps the citadel-like walls settings as to differentiate it from the other architectural buildings. The church building was further developed on the lines of Baroque in the 18th century. However, was destroyed during the bombing of WW II and once again restored to its gothic form in 1953. Moreover church also has majolica tilework that is characteristic of the school of Neapolitan ceramic form that period was crafted out by Donato Massa and his son, Giuseppe.

•   Naples Cathedral: The Cathedral of Naples is a primary church of Naples and is devoted to San Gennaro, the Naples’ patron. The construction of the church started around the end of the 11th century and completed in early 14th century under Robert of Anjou.  The church was constructed on the foundations of two palaeo-Christian basilicas, whose traces can still be traced out and revealed too. Beneath the church in excavations Greek and Roman artifacts has been discovered. Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius is the real center of attraction for the church and there also exists many other artworks from the 14th century.

Naples Cathedral

Some other places of historical and architectural importance in the city are Teatro San Carlo, Galleria Umberto I, Palazzo Reale, Posillipo, San Domenico Maggiore and Gesù Nuovo.

Italy is located on the Southern part of Europe and it is a city with so much attractions and history. Italy is admired worldwide by people for its popularity in book and play settings. The only way to discover Naples this beautiful place in Italy is by touring it, as they say ‘to see is to believe’. The landscapes in Naples Italy are a lure by themselves, and tourists love touring this place. This is the place to be for lovers as it depicts romance especially in some locations like the Medieval Hill Towns. Vacations in Italy become possible and exciting due to the radiance that first welcomes you to this city.

The life in Naples is vibrant, the politics are active, and the hotels are first class. The scenes are historical and many more. Tourists are welcomed to this city and hosted in the best hotels and getaways. There are vineyards equipped with wine cellars where one can find the vintage wines with exquisite taste. The dishes and cuisines prepared in this city are diverse meaning you get to choose from an array.

Historical buildings and structures are what dominate the place. In the days of the Roman Empire centuries ago architectures worked at creating what is now known as the prosperous architectural legacies in the city.

Naples may seem quiet and cool during the day but this city literally livens up and shines at night. The nightlife is full of pomp, the activities in restaurants and in popular venues are what makes the nights interesting. Tourists definitely enjoy going out at night to have some fun as they go ahead exploring this city full of unending adventure.

Getting your way around the place is easy. The transport is convenient and getting from one location to another is effortless. For the individuals with a keen sense and admiration of fashion Naples is the best place to look for designer bags, shoes and outfits. There are available gift shops where tourists can buy goodies after the vacation. There are many activities that can be done in this city and they are: horseriding, watersports, cultural holidays and golf. With the attractive sceneries and spots, tourists can take some photographs to remind them of this city. Learning Italian to be able to converse with the inhabitants is a pastime that should not be overlooked.

With the numerous attractions, restaurants, accommodation, sightseeing, good transport and lively nightlife Naples is a World tourist destination.