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Forty metres under the historic centre

Naples Underground Tours

Four different undergrounds share the name. Every tour here is labelled by the one it actually enters.

Naples Underground tours drop about forty metres into tunnels quarried for the stone the city above is built from. Compare every guided route and entry ticket by which underground it enters, how long you spend below, what the descent asks of you and what you pay.

Hours, prices and access verified by the Naples Underground Tours team — last checked August 26, 2026

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40 mBelow the streets
136 stepsDown and back up
From $10Per person
Naples Underground Tours›Tours & Tickets 2026
Updated: August 26, 2026
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Top Naples Underground Tours for 2026

One official route, one different door, and one walk that puts the tunnels inside a morning in the old town.

Best sellerNaples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

Naples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

★ 4.4 (25,209)1.5 - 2 hoursNapoli Sotterranea

Skip the queueOfficial routePizza option

The official route into Napoli Sotterranea, with the ticket queue skipped and a guide the whole way down. Ninety minutes to two hours below ground covers the Greco-Roman aqueduct, the quarry cisterns and the remains of the Roman theatre with its newly reopened Summa Cavea, plus a short candlelit passage that is entirely optional. Guides work in English and Italian, and a free multilingual app covers the rest. Add the pizza option and a Margherita or Marinara with a soft drink follows the tour; this listing is sold non-refundable, so pick the date you mean.

  1. Skip the ticket queue at the Underground Naples entrance
  2. Descend with your guide into the tuff quarry tunnels
  3. Walk the Greco-Roman aqueduct channels below the centre
  4. See the Roman theatre remains and the Summa Cavea
  5. Take the optional candlelit passage to a cistern
  6. Add pizza lunch or dinner if that option is booked
From $20 per person
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Sold non-refundable — this one cannot be cancelled for a refund.

Naples: Spanish Quarters Underground Guided Tour

Naples: Spanish Quarters Underground Guided Tour

★ 4.8 (5,794)1 hourSpanish Quarters route

Skip the queueThree languagesOne hour below

One hour beneath the Spanish Quarters, entered through a doorway most people walk straight past. Your guide takes the group down into passages cut for tuff and later widened into the Neapolitan aqueduct, past the wall writing left by families who sheltered here through the air raids of the Second World War. Entry, the guided visit and a skip-the-line ticket all sit inside the fare, and departures run in English, Spanish and Italian. Narrow stretches and a long descent make this one wrong for wheelchair users and for anyone uneasy in tight spaces.

  1. Meet your guide in the Spanish Quarters
  2. Skip the ticket queue into Underground Naples
  3. Follow the tunnels beneath the Spanish Quarters
  4. Visit the Neapolitan aqueduct and its wall writing
  5. Hear how the tunnels became wartime air-raid shelters
From $20 per person
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Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.

Naples Underground & Highlights Tour – Small Group Experience

Naples Underground & Highlights Tour – Small Group Experience

★ 4.8 (244)2 hours 30 minutesNapoli Sotterranea

Ticket includedMax 16Headsets

Two and a half hours in the historic centre, and a full hour of it forty metres down. You meet under the Bellini statue in Piazza Bellini, descend into the tunnel network for the aqueduct channels and the quarry chambers, then come back up for Spaccanapoli and the workshops of the old town. Headsets go out once the party passes seven, and a cap of sixteen keeps your guide within earshot in the narrow sections. The entry ticket and the guided visit underground are both included; food, drinks and transfers are not.

  1. Meet under the Bellini statue in Piazza Bellini
  2. Walk the historic centre with your local guide
  3. Enter Underground Naples with ticket and guided visit
  4. Spend an hour among tunnels, passageways and caverns
  5. Come back up for Spaccanapoli's narrow streets
  6. Finish at the Piazza Bellini meeting point
From $34 per person
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Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.

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Trusted by Thousands of Visitors

Every Naples Underground guided tour listed here is run by the organisation that holds the site, and a Naples Underground booking on almost all of them refunds in full up to 24 hours before it starts.

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Guides who work these tunnels

Every route below goes with a licensed guide who is down there daily. On the official route that is the only way in, because the operator does not allow the walk to be made alone — which means the story comes with the ticket.

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Almost every ticket here refunds in full up to 24 hours before you go, and most let you reserve now and pay later. A date you are not yet certain of costs nothing to hold.

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Two thousand years in an hour

An aqueduct the Greeks began, a quarry that built the city overhead, and a wartime shelter with the drawings still on its walls — all of it a staircase away from via dei Tribunali.

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All Naples Underground Tours & Tickets

Direct entry first, then the guided walks, and last the one that never goes below ground. A naples underground tunnels tour and a naples underground walking tour are different purchases, and a naples underground tour napoli sotterranea enters a different site again — the column that separates them is time spent below.

Best sellerNaples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

Naples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour

★ 4.4 (25,209)1.5 - 2 hoursNapoli Sotterranea

Skip the queueOfficial routePizza option

The official route into Napoli Sotterranea, with the ticket queue skipped and a guide the whole way down. Ninety minutes to two hours below ground covers the Greco-Roman aqueduct, the quarry cisterns and the remains of the Roman theatre with its newly reopened Summa Cavea, plus a short candlelit passage that is entirely optional. Guides work in English and Italian, and a free multilingual app covers the rest. Add the pizza option and a Margherita or Marinara with a soft drink follows the tour; this listing is sold non-refundable, so pick the date you mean.

From $20 per person
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Naples: Spanish Quarters Underground Guided Tour

Naples: Spanish Quarters Underground Guided Tour

★ 4.8 (5,794)1 hourSpanish Quarters route

Skip the queueThree languagesOne hour below

One hour beneath the Spanish Quarters, entered through a doorway most people walk straight past. Your guide takes the group down into passages cut for tuff and later widened into the Neapolitan aqueduct, past the wall writing left by families who sheltered here through the air raids of the Second World War. Entry, the guided visit and a skip-the-line ticket all sit inside the fare, and departures run in English, Spanish and Italian. Narrow stretches and a long descent make this one wrong for wheelchair users and for anyone uneasy in tight spaces.

From $20 per person
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Best valueNaples: San Lorenzo Maggiore & Underground Neapolis Ticket

Naples: San Lorenzo Maggiore & Underground Neapolis Ticket

★ 4.1 (1,225)—Neapolis Sotterrata

Free audio guideWhole complexStep-free

Ten metres under Piazza San Gaetano you walk a Roman market street, complete with its shops, its treasury and the macellum at the commercial heart of Greek-Roman Neapolis. Your ticket opens the whole San Lorenzo Maggiore complex — cloister, Chapter Hall, Sisto V Hall and museum — along with the excavation beneath it, and a free audio guide downloads on site. It is the only route here its listing calls wheelchair accessible. Food, drink, transport and the two-euro guided visit bookable at the desk all sit outside the fare.

From $10 per person
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Naples: San Gaudioso Catacombs Guided Tour

Naples: San Gaudioso Catacombs Guided Tour

★ 4.7 (1,217)45 minutesSan Gaudioso catacombs

45 guided minutesSecond catacomb freeBasilica included

Forty-five guided minutes take you into the Catacombs of San Gaudioso, under the Basilica di Santa Maria della Sanità. Your route passes fifth- and sixth-century frescoes, the tomb of the North African bishop buried here between 451 and 453, and the seventeenth-century wall niches where skulls were set on display. Work by Giovanni Balducci, who refused payment so that he could be buried among the city’s aristocrats, is part of what you see. The same ticket opens the Catacombs of San Gennaro free for twelve months, so a second underground costs nothing but the walk.

From $15 per person
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Naples Underground & Highlights Tour – Small Group Experience

Naples Underground & Highlights Tour – Small Group Experience

★ 4.8 (244)2 hours 30 minutesNapoli Sotterranea

Ticket includedMax 16Headsets

Two and a half hours in the historic centre, and a full hour of it forty metres down. You meet under the Bellini statue in Piazza Bellini, descend into the tunnel network for the aqueduct channels and the quarry chambers, then come back up for Spaccanapoli and the workshops of the old town. Headsets go out once the party passes seven, and a cap of sixteen keeps your guide within earshot in the narrow sections. The entry ticket and the guided visit underground are both included; food, drinks and transfers are not.

From $34 per person
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Naples Top Sights & Underground small group tour

Naples Top Sights & Underground small group tour

★ 4.7 (72)2.5 hoursNapoli Sotterranea

Ticket includedMax 16Headsets

Piazza Bellini at the start, San Gregorio Armeno at the finish, and an hour in the tunnels in between for you. This naples underground city tour pairs your descent into the Greco-Roman aqueduct with the street life directly above it — the Campanile della Pietrasanta, Spaccanapoli and the workshops that make nativity figures all year. Numbers are held to sixteen and a headset is issued once the group passes seven. Entry and the guided visit below are covered by the fare, while food, drinks and transfers are not.

From $33 per person
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Naples: City Center Walking Tour with Underground Naples

Naples: City Center Walking Tour with Underground Naples

★ 4.4 (145)3 hours 30 minutesNapoli Sotterranea

Ticket includedMax 1590 min below

Ninety minutes below street level, the longest stretch underground of any walking tour here, after a slow circuit of the old town above it. You gather under the statue in Piazza del Gesù Nuovo, walk Spaccanapoli, via San Gregorio Armeno and via dei Tribunali, then take the stairs down into the tunnels. Numbers are capped at fifteen and the minimum age is four. A professional guide and your entrance ticket are included; gratuities and private transport are not.

From $89 per person
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Naples Old Town & Underground Roman Ruins

Naples Old Town & Underground Roman Ruins

★ 4.6 (350)3 - 5 hoursNeapolis Sotterrata

Ticket includedLunch optionThree languages

Three to five hours, depending on whether you take the lunch option, running from Piazza Municipio to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo. Your underground half is the Neapolis Sotterrata, the excavated Roman street below San Lorenzo Maggiore, and both the ticket and the guided visit there are in the fare. Above ground the route takes in Castel Nuovo, the Galleria Umberto I, San Gregorio Armeno and Spaccanapoli. Guides work in English, Italian and Spanish; group options run from eight to forty, and hotel pickup and tips are excluded.

From $36 per person
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Naples Walking Tour and Underground Ruins

Naples Walking Tour and Underground Ruins

★ 4.2 (5)3 hoursUnderground ruins

Entrance fee includedMetro legLive guide

Twenty minutes below ground is what you get, with the rest of the three hours spent covering the centre at pace. You leave at 08:30 from the Neptune fountain in Piazza Municipio, takes the metro up to Piazza Dante, then works back down through Gesù Nuovo, San Gregorio Armeno and the underground ruins to Castel Nuovo and the Galleria Umberto I. A live guide and the entrance fee are included. Hotel pickup, lunch and gratuities are not, and the group can reach forty people.

From $83 per person
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Walking Tour of the Neapolitan Superstition

Walking Tour of the Neapolitan Superstition

★ 5.0 (3)1 hour 45 minutesAbove ground only

Above ground onlyMax 10Step-free

Above ground throughout: this walk takes you past the Underground Naples entrance without going in, and says so plainly. What you get instead is the city’s superstition — Pulcinella’s nose, the cult of the pezzentelle souls at Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, and the munaciello who came out of the water tunnels. You start at 3 p.m. in Piazza Bellini by the Greek walls and finish in Piazza San Domenico Maggiore. Groups are capped at ten, and the route is wheelchair and stroller accessible.

From $71 per person
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The destination

About the Naples Underground

Why the city above and the void below were made in the same operation.

Naples stands on the stone it was cut from. Quarrymen took yellow tuff out of the ground from the Greek period onwards, hauled it up through shafts and built the city with it, and the holes they left were linked into an aqueduct that fed wells across the historic centre until cholera closed it in 1885. Sixty years later the same voids became air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people. All three layers are still down there, about forty metres below the pavement.

The route below

The official walk takes in the quarry chambers, the Greco-Roman aqueduct channels, the cisterns the well-keepers kept clear for centuries, an optional candlelit passage barely shoulder-wide, the shelter where families sat out the air raids, and the remains of the Roman theatre whose upper tier has recently been brought back into the route.

Which underground is which

Napoli Sotterranea at Piazza San Gaetano 69, the LAES route under the Spanish Quarters, the Neapolis Sotterrata at number 316 on the same square, and two catacombs up in the Sanità. Four operators, four separate tickets, four different depths and one name between them — which is why every card here says which one it enters.

Quarry, aqueduct, shelter

Greek Neapolis was founded around 470 B.C. and the tunnels grew outwards with it. The pozzari climbed the shafts for centuries to keep the wells running, and left a household legend behind them when cholera closed the system in 1885. The war that followed left charcoal drawings on the tuff that are still there.

A hand-cut tuff passage opening onto a lit chamberStill water in a Naples Underground cisternA wartime charcoal drawing on a tuff wall
Before you book

Do You Need a Guided Tour at All?

Naples Underground tickets are sold four different ways by four different organisations, and on two of them a Naples Underground guided tour is the only way in at all.

On the official route, yes

Napoli Sotterranea states plainly that the visit cannot be made on your own: there is always a guide with the group. The ticket and the guide are the same purchase, so the question there is which departure time, not whether to book one.

Under San Lorenzo Maggiore, no

The excavation at Piazza San Gaetano 316 can be walked alone with a free audio guide, and a live guide costs two euros more at the desk. Between mid-June and the end of September 2026 the complex runs guided visits only, on a fixed timetable.

For the catacombs, it comes with the ticket

The Sanità catacombs are visited with a guide on the hour, and the fee covers both. Booking is required and the ticket opens the second catacomb free for twelve months afterwards.

Hours and departure times

What you will see

The Named Things You Will Actually See

Not a description of the city — the specific spaces these tickets take you into.

The Greco-Roman aqueduct

Channels cut through the tuff and later plastered, carrying water under the whole historic centre to wells in courtyards above.

The quarry cisterns

Chambers hollowed out for building stone, then sealed and filled with water. Several still hold it, green and completely still.

The candlelit passage

A stretch barely shoulder-wide leading to a Roman cistern, walked by candle. It is optional, and skipping it costs about ten minutes of waiting.

The Roman theatre and the Summa Cavea

The theatre of Neapolis survives inside later buildings, reached from the street. Its upper tier, the Summa Cavea, has recently been brought back into the route.

The wartime shelter

Bunks, tins, toys and charcoal drawings left by the families who lived down here through the air raids of 1940 to 1944.

The Neapolis market street

Ten metres under Piazza San Gaetano, a Roman street with its shopfronts, the treasury and the macellum where the city bought its food.

Plan your visit

The Questions That Decide Which One You Book

Answer these in order and the choice makes itself.

An hour, a half-day or a full day

An hour buys the Spanish Quarters route or a catacomb; ninety minutes to two hours buys the official Napoli Sotterranea walk. Anything above that is a guided circuit of the centre with the tunnels as one stop, which runs from an hour and three quarters to five hours.

Two undergrounds fit comfortably into one day — the timings are in the one-day itinerary.

136 steps, or none at all

The official route descends 136 steps with a handrail and no lift, and the listing puts it plainly: not accessible to wheelchairs or walkers. The excavation under San Lorenzo Maggiore is described on its listing as wheelchair accessible, and the superstition walk never leaves street level.

Every route, compared step by step, on steps and access.

Straight down, or the long way round

Entry tickets put all of your booked time below ground and cost $10 to $21. Walking tours spend most of theirs above it, cost $34 to $89, and hand you the streets, the churches and the workshops as well as the descent.

Both formats laid out side by side: entry tickets and walking tours.

The narrow bit is optional

On the official route the only genuinely tight stretch is a short candlelit passage to a Roman cistern, and the operator lets anyone who would rather not go wait for the group — about ten minutes. The main path is lit, the steps are low and there is a handrail.

If that still sounds like too much, the Neapolis Sotterrata is a wide excavated street with no crawl in it at all.

Torches, pushchairs and candles

Pushchairs are left at the entrance and collected on the way out. The operator suggests primary and middle-school children bring a small torch, and candles are not handed to children. One walking tour sets its minimum age at four.

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Which Naples Underground Tour Is Right for You?

Sorted by format. The two columns worth reading are time below ground and Best for.

Tour or ticketEntersBelow groundTotalRatingPriceBest for
Naples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided TourNapoli Sotterranea1.5 - 2 hours1.5 - 2 hours★ 4.4 (25,209)From $20Going straight to the official route with the queue skippedBook
Naples: Spanish Quarters Underground Guided TourSpanish Quarters route1 hour1 hour★ 4.8 (5,794)From $20One tight, well-drilled hour under the Spanish QuartersBook
Naples: San Lorenzo Maggiore & Underground Neapolis TicketNeapolis Sotterrata——★ 4.1 (1,225)From $10Step-free access, a Roman market street and the lowest fareBook
Naples: San Gaudioso Catacombs Guided TourSan Gaudioso catacombs45 minutes45 minutes★ 4.7 (1,217)From $15A different underground entirely, with a second one thrown inBook
Naples Underground & Highlights Tour – Small Group ExperienceNapoli Sotterranea1 hour2 hours 30 minutes★ 4.8 (244)From $34An hour below plus the old town, in a group of sixteenBook
Naples Top Sights & Underground small group tourNapoli Sotterranea1 hour2.5 hours★ 4.7 (72)From $33A first afternoon in the centre with the tunnels built inBook
Naples: City Center Walking Tour with Underground NaplesNapoli Sotterranea1 hour 30 minutes3 hours 30 minutes★ 4.4 (145)From $89The longest time below ground on a guided walkBook
Naples Old Town & Underground Roman RuinsNeapolis Sotterrata30 minutes3 - 5 hours★ 4.6 (350)From $36A long half-day, with a Roman market street and lunchBook
Naples Walking Tour and Underground RuinsUnderground ruins20 minutes3 hours★ 4.2 (5)From $83A fast circuit of the centre with a brief look belowBook
Walking Tour of the Neapolitan SuperstitionAbove ground only—1 hour 45 minutes★ 5.0 (3)From $71Neapolitan superstition at street level, step-freeBook

“Good English from the guide and plenty of detail. A group of thirty-five still heard everything. One warning: the Naples Underground meeting point is not obvious — face the basilica and take the small road on the left, not the entrance across the square.”

Caroline · United Kingdom · August 2026

“Interesting subject, but our guide was short with people who asked questions. Not the best of the guides we had on the trip.”

Eryn · United States · June 2026

“My son and I were lucky enough to have Francesca to ourselves. Two and a half immersive hours took in the underground city and the stories of the quarter above it.”

Linda · Italy · Family · March 2026

What to expect

How a Visit Underground Runs

A naples underground city tour and a naples italy underground tour follow the same four stages whichever entrance you pick.

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Find the right door

Two of the four undergrounds are on Piazza San Gaetano, at numbers 69 and 316. Check which one your booking names before you set off.

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Arrive ten minutes early

Most operators ask for it, and the catacombs will not admit you to a later slot if you miss your time.

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Down the steps

136 of them on the official route, low and handrailed, with no lift. The temperature drops as you go and stays there.

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An hour or two below

Aqueduct, cisterns, the optional narrow passage, then back up to the same street you left, usually blinking.

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Traveller reviews

Naples Underground Tours Reviews

Across all four entrances, and including the nights that did not go perfectly.

Ratings and review counts below are each operator’s own figures from its booking listing — a handful on the newest walk, more than twenty-five thousand on the official route.

★★★★★

Good English from the guide and plenty of detail. A group of thirty-five still heard everything. One warning: the Naples Underground meeting point is not obvious — face the basilica and take the small road on the left, not the entrance across the square.

Caroline · United Kingdom · August 2026 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★☆

Naples Underground was interesting and well organised throughout. The pizza included in the offer was very good too, though it adds up for a family of four.

Roberto · Italy · Family · August 2026 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

Booked it as a family with two teenagers who said in advance that it looked boring. It was the opposite — the guides talked to them from the moment we arrived.

Holly · United Kingdom · Family · August 2026 · Spanish Quarters route

★★★☆☆

Interesting subject, but our guide was short with people who asked questions. Not the best of the guides we had on the trip.

Eryn · United States · June 2026 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

Our group was three people, and the walk to the Naples Underground meeting point from the cruise port took about twenty minutes. The guide suggested where to eat afterwards.

Nina · United Kingdom · July 2026 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

Wear comfortable shoes. A very good introduction to the area, followed by a fascinating look at the Naples Underground.

Judy · United States · September 2025 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

There were only two of us on the tour and Mario stayed engaged the whole way through. We came away knowing far more about the history of the city than we arrived with.

Nolan · United States · Couple · September 2025 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

It was just the two of us and our guide, Sharon. She connected the art and the architecture back to the people and the history, with a real sense of humour, and we left feeling we had got to know a bit of the real Naples.

Kenneth · United States · Couple · December 2024 · Napoli Sotterranea

★★★★★

We saw parts of the city we had missed on previous trips here. The Naples Underground aqueduct section was the highlight, and our guide knew it thoroughly.

Glenn · United States · Repeat visitor · August 2024 · Napoli Sotterranea

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Prices, which underground is which, the steps, and what to do if any of that rules you out.

How much do Naples Underground tours cost?

Guided tours and tickets here run from $10 to $89 per person. The entry tickets sit at the bottom of that range because all of the booked time is spent below ground; the walking tours cost more because most of their length is a guided circuit of the historic centre above it.

Do I need to book Naples Underground tickets in advance?

For the official Napoli Sotterranea route, booking is how you skip the ticket queue, which is worth having in high season. The catacombs require a reservation outright. San Lorenzo Maggiore sells at the door as well as online, but between mid-June and the end of September 2026 it runs guided visits only, on a fixed timetable.

Are Naples Underground tours refundable?

Almost all of them refund in full up to 24 hours before the start time, and most let you reserve now and pay later. The exception is the official Napoli Sotterranea entry ticket, which is sold non-refundable and says so on its own card.

Which underground is “Naples Underground”?

Four different sites answer to the name. Napoli Sotterranea at Piazza San Gaetano 69 is the one most people mean; the LAES route runs under the Spanish Quarters from Vico S. Anna di Palazzo; the Neapolis Sotterrata sits under San Lorenzo Maggiore at Piazza San Gaetano 316; and the Sanità catacombs are a different thing again.

What is the difference between Napoli Sotterranea and the Neapolis Sotterrata?

Napoli Sotterranea is a quarry and aqueduct system about forty metres down, entered from Piazza San Gaetano 69 and walked only with a guide. The Neapolis Sotterrata is an excavated Roman market street about ten metres down, entered from number 316 on the same square, and you may walk it alone.

How deep is Naples Underground?

The official route reaches roughly forty metres below the street. The excavation under San Lorenzo Maggiore is about ten metres down. Both figures come from the operators themselves.

What will I actually see down there?

Quarry chambers cut by hand out of yellow tuff, the channels of the Greco-Roman aqueduct, and cisterns that still hold water. Further along there is a wartime shelter with drawings and objects left where they fell, and the remains of the Roman theatre with its recently reopened upper tier.

Which metro stop is nearest?

Dante and Museo on Line 1 both put you a short walk from via dei Tribunali and Piazza San Gaetano. Toledo, also Line 1, is the closest to the Spanish Quarters entrance. For the catacombs, Museo and then the bus or a walk up Via Capodimonte.

Where do the tours meet?

Piazza Bellini for two of the small-group walks and the superstition tour, Piazza del Gesù Nuovo for one, Piazza Municipio for two more, and the Spanish Quarters or the site entrance for the direct-entry tickets. Your booking names yours.

How many steps are there?

The official route descends 136 steps, described by the operator as low and comfortable, with a handrail and no lift. Two tour listings quote 121; the attraction’s own figure is 136.

Is Naples Underground wheelchair accessible?

The official route is not, and its own wording says why: stairs and narrow passages make it unsuitable for wheelchairs or walkers. The Neapolis Sotterrata under San Lorenzo Maggiore is described on its listing as wheelchair accessible, and the superstition walk stays at street level throughout.

Is it suitable if I am claustrophobic?

The main path is lit and wide enough to walk normally; the one genuinely tight stretch is a short candlelit passage that is optional. Anyone who prefers to skip it waits for the group for about ten minutes. The Spanish Quarters route names claustrophobia as a reason not to book.

Can I skip the narrow passage?

Yes. The operator builds the wait into the tour: the group goes through, you wait roughly ten minutes at the wider end, and everyone continues together.

Can I take a pushchair?

Not down the official route. Pushchairs are left at the main entrance and collected on the way out; the same operator advises that primary and middle-school children bring a small torch, and does not hand candles to children.

What should I wear?

Flat shoes, and a sweatshirt in warm weather — both are the operator’s own advice. It is noticeably cooler underground than on the street, which in a Neapolitan August is most of the appeal.

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Photographs

Naples Underground Gallery

The quarry chambers, the aqueduct and the stairs that get you down to them.

A lamp-lit chamber cut by hand out of the yellow tuff beneath Naples, blocks of quarried stone stacked across its floorThe narrow aqueduct passage of the Naples Underground, barely shoulder-wide, lit by a single lamp at the far endA large Naples Underground cistern lit from above, with dark standing water, walkways and a flight of steps cut into the rockStill green water in a Naples Underground cistern, a terracotta amphora hanging against the tuff wall above itA long vaulted stone stairway in Napoli Sotterranea climbing towards a light, with handrails on both wallsLooking down the square shaft of the Naples Underground staircase, its flights turning back on themselves through the tuff

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Guides and Articles

Longer answers to the questions that come after you have decided to go down.

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Find it

Where the Naples Underground Is

Four entrances inside half an hour of each other, and two of them on the same square.

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Naples Underground

Vico S. Anna di Palazzo, 52, 80132 Napoli NA, Italy · Open in Google Maps

Hours

Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. · Saturday and Sunday 9:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

The other entrances

Napoli Sotterranea at Piazza San Gaetano 69, San Lorenzo Maggiore at number 316 on the same square, and the Catacombs of San Gennaro and San Gaudioso at Via Capodimonte 13 and Via Sanità 123.

Getting there

Dante, Museo and Toledo on metro Line 1 serve all four — getting to the entrances has the walking times and what each door looks like.

Book the entrance you actually meant

Naples Underground tours and tickets, compared on which tunnels they enter and how long you spend in them — and most let you hold a Naples Underground reservation now and pay later. Naples Underground ticket prices start lower than most people expect, and a Naples Underground booking takes a minute.

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Free cancellation up to 24 hours before almost every departure listed.