Naples doesn't curate its art — it lives inside it. Caravaggio hangs in a working bank vault, Baroque cloisters glow with majolica, and San Carlo has run continuously since 1737. Three days of painted ceilings, presepe workshops and Sanità catacombs.
Bourbon hunting palace holding the Farnese collection: Masaccio, Titian's Danaë, Parmigianino's Antea, Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind and Caravaggio's Flagellation. Open 08:30–19:30, closed Wednesdays. Take the Salita Moiariello route up through the park.
A working charitable institution since 1602, with Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy still above the altar it was painted for in 1607 — never moved. The upstairs picture gallery holds Battistello Caracciolo and Luca Giordano. Open 09:00–18:00.
The 1740 Vaccaro cloister sets 72 octagonal pillars sheathed in Capodimonte majolica tiles painted with vines, lemons and rural scenes, benches showing hunts and harvests. Bombed in 1943, rebuilt to the Gothic original. Open 09:30–17:30.
Carthusian monastery on the Vomero ridge with a church of inlaid marble by Cosimo Fanzago, plus the Cuciniello presepe — an entire 18th-century Nativity landscape with hundreds of terracotta figures. Reached by the Montesanto funicular.
Europe's oldest continuously working opera house, opened 1737, forty years before La Scala. Guided tours run roughly every 45 minutes from 10:30, covering the royal box, six tiers of gilded stalls and the MeMus theatre museum in the basement.
The 1860 Liberty-style café on Piazza Trieste e Trento where Oscar Wilde, D'Annunzio and Sartre sat among frescoed ceilings and gilt mirrors. Closed by the Fascist regime for its anti-regime clientele, reopened in 1972. Stand at the bar for a caffè sospeso.
A 17th-century Cosimo Fanzago palazzo on Via Toledo, converted to a banking gallery. Its centrepiece is Caravaggio's Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, painted weeks before his death in 1610, alongside Gigante's Posillipo school landscapes.
Naples' conservatory, founded 1826 on the site of a 14th-century monastery, trained Scarlatti and Bellini. Its library holds original Pergolesi manuscripts, and free student recitals run most weeknights in the Sala Scarlatti.
Second-century burial complex on two levels with the earliest known portrait of San Gennaro, in 5th-century mosaic. Run by La Paranza, a cooperative of Sanità youth whose guides trained here. Hourly tours 10:00–17:00, entry beside the Madre del Buon Consiglio basilica.
A tufa quarry holding roughly 40,000 disinterred bones from plague and cholera epidemics, and the site of the outlawed anime pezzentelle cult, where Neapolitans adopted and polished anonymous skulls in exchange for favours. Free entry, 10:00–17:00.
The presepe artisans' street, worked continuously since the 18th century. Botteghe like Ferrigno (founded 1836) carve terracotta shepherds by hand at open benches, alongside satirical figurines of footballers and politicians. Most open 09:00–19:00.
Naples' Stazioni dell'Arte turn the metro into a gallery. Oscar Tusquets Blanca's Toledo lines the escalator shaft with Bill Culbert's Crater de Luz mosaic; Karim Rashid's Università covers Line 1 platforms in digital-era colour fields.