Pizza, Vesuvius and raw Southern energy
Naples is loud, dense and utterly itself, a city where washing hangs over alleys and shrines sit on street corners. Its historic centre, a UNESCO site, is threaded by Spaccanapoli and Via dei Tribunali, where pizzerias have been baking Neapolitan pizza for generations. The National Archaeological Museum holds the finest treasures from Pompeii and Herculaneum, and underground tours reveal Greek and Roman tunnels. Vesuvius looms over the bay, with ferries running to the islands.