Naples & Pompeii · Europe » Sights (17)

The Anfiteatro Flavio is the third-largest amphitheater in Italy, after the Colosseum and Santa Maria Capua Vetere, and once held 40,000 spectators. Judging from the complex underground network o...

Via Acropoli 39, Cumae, Italy

The Antro della Sibilla (Sibyl's Cave, Sibyl's Cave) -- one of the most venerated sites in antiquity -- is in Cumae. In the 6th or 5th century BC the Greeks hollowed the cave from the rock beneat...

Via Fusaro 35, Baia, Italy

Now largely under the sea, this was once the most opulent and fashionable resort area of the Roman Empire, a place where Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Tiberius, and Nero all built holiday...

Via de Sanctis 19, Naples, Italy

Off Spaccanapoli, the Cappella di Santa Maria della Pietà dei Sangro, better known as the Cappella Sansevero, holds the tombs of the noble Sangro di San Severo family. Much of it was designed in ...

Naples, Italy

Dangling over the Porto Santa Lucia on a thin promontory, this 12th-century fortress built over the ruins of an ancient Roman villa commands a view of the whole harbor -- proof, if you need it, t...

Naples, Italy

Also known as the Maschio Angioino, this massive fortress was built by the Angevins (related to the French monarchy) in the 13th century and completely rebuilt by the Aragonese rulers (descendant...

Naples, Italy

A Carthusian monastery restored in the 17th century in exuberant Neapolitan baroque style, this structure has now been transformed into a diverse museum complex. The Museo dell'Opera, with its im...

Via Duomo 147, Naples, Italy

Though the Duomo was established in the 1200s, the building you see was erected a century later and has since undergone radical changes, especially during the baroque age. Inside the cathedral 11...

Naples, Italy

The oddly faceted stone facade of the church was designed as part of a palace dating from between 1584 and 1601, but plans were changed as construction progressed, and it became the front of an e...

Italy

Lying more than 60 feet below the town of Ercolano, the ruins of Herculaneum are set among the acres of greenhouses that make this area one of Europe's principal flower-growing centers. It had ab...