Museums in Naples

Pompeii is the ancient Roman city frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The excavated ruins—streets, villas, baths, and an amphitheatre—offer the most complete picture of daily life in the Roman Empire.

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) houses the world's finest collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including the Farnese collection, Pompeian mosaics, and the Secret Cabinet of Roman erotic art.

The Museo di Capodimonte is Naples' premier painting gallery, housed in a Bourbon palace surrounded by a 134-hectare royal park. The Farnese and Borgia collections include Caravaggio, Titian, Masaccio, and Bellini.

The Cappella Sansevero is a tiny Baroque chapel housing the 'Veiled Christ' (1753) by Giuseppe Sanmartino—a marble sculpture of such extraordinary translucency that the veil appears to be real fabric. Many consider it the world's greatest sculpture.

Napoli Sotterranea takes you 40 metres below the city streets into a vast network of Greek-Roman aqueducts, WWII bomb shelters, and ancient tunnels carved from tuff stone over 2,400 years.