Day 4: Naples: Spaccanapoli, Naples Underground, Spanish Quarter, Port Naples - Rome Fiumicino Airport - Barcelona
Today is the last day of this trip to Naples and Pompeii in 4 days that we wanted to do so long ago. The alarm rings at 7 in the morning and after leaving everything collected and updating social networks a bit, we return to the terrace of the UNA Hotel Napoli where we return to breakfast on its incredible terrace, as we did yesterday before leaving to discover Naples in one day and where we enjoy beautiful views before returning to the streets of Naples with a visit in mind, Naples Underground.
Having breakfast on the terrace of UNA Hotel Napoli
We left the hotel at 9 in the morning, after leaving our luggage at the reception and with the confirmation that at noon we will have the rental car in Naples ready. And it is that the hotel gave us a parking lot that they have about 400 meters from the hotel and since we left the keys there, they themselves want to take care of bringing it to the hotel so that we are more comfortable. As we commented in the article that we dedicated to UNA Hotel Napoli, it has been a great success to stay here.
Today we take it more calmly, since we have all morning, until 2 or so, that we set course from Naples to Fiumicino airport in Rome from where our flight leaves at 10 at night that will take us back home.
The main idea of today is to go back to the areas we liked most yesterday and make one of the visits we had stored in the bedroom in case we had time: Naples Underground.
We go back to the streets of Spaccanapoli, finding those everyday images that we liked so much yesterday and that are one of the reasons why from now on, we recommend Naples as an essential destination in Italy.
Streets of Scappanapoli
After entertaining ourselves in many details and many images that make us feel like in an Italian movie, we arrive at the street of the mangers, San Gregorio Armeno, where we can avoid going back and enjoy the wonderful mangers and crafts that have in this space of Naples.
Via San Gregorio Armeno
Detail of a manger in San Gregorio Armeno
After this new encounter with Neapolitan crafts, we retrace our steps to get closer to San Lorenzo Maggiore, the place we have selected to make a visit that we had in mind for a long time: Naples Underground.
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Book the best rated tours and excursions in Spanish in Naples by travelers:This visit can be made more complete in Piazza San Gaetano, 68, where you will be about 2 hours enjoying the subsoil of Naples. Although not all the route is done in the underground area, the vast majority is and the initial area is quite narrow, so if you have claustrophobia, it is best to skip that part.
After the first part of the tour, about an hour, you leave at the Teatro Greco Romano, which is still partially buried and between the houses of Via dei Tribunali.
To be this longer visit, we have chosen to do the Underground Naples of San Lorenzo Maggiore, where we pay 9 euros per person, you can pay a little more and access with a guided tour and there we will go through the bowels of this incredible city.
San Lorenzo Maggiore
The Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore It was built in the 11th century on the remains of an old Christian church and in the basement, we can find the archaeological site that forms the ancient Forum of Neapolis, the most important archaeological site in the center of Naples.
Streets of Naples underground
At 10 meters deep we find a Roman market, located in a rectangular space, with shops, an interior courtyard, covered with mosaics and a central building where food was sold.
Naples Underground
In the lower levels of the subsoil we find a street, formerly called Cardo, covered with the pavement of the 5th century A.D.
We also found nine workshops, with two rooms each, where business and sales were carried out. Here we have found an oven and various tanks in which fabrics were dyed. At the end of this street is the covered market, with small rooms and stone benches, where the products were probably exhibited.
Naples Underground Street
No doubt this is an impressive and essential visit if you have an hour, since this area of Underground Naples does not take much longer. Surely you will not regret it.
From here and with the idea of enjoying the dolce non fare niente, we are going to tour this area of Naples that yesterday dazzled us.
Naples street shops
After buying some culinary detail, impossible to resist the cream truffle when we come to Italy, we arrive at the Chiesa dei Gesú Nouvo, where we passed yesterday but where in the end we did not enter because there were many people.
Admission is free and worth spending a few minutes inside, totally recommended.
Chiesa dei Gesú Nouvo
It is 11:30 in the morning when we continue strolling through Naples and arrive at Toledo Street, in the Spanish Quarter where we get lost again in these streets that we liked so much yesterday.
Toledo Street
Spanish Quarter
Traveling to Toledo Street until the end, we reach the port area and seeing that it is after 12 noon, we choose to tour this area, via Vía Nuova Marina, where we did not pass yesterday, until we reached the hotel zone, where we want to eat at the Trianon Pizzeria, another of the most recommended pizzerias in Naples, and that we also have near our accommodation.
The truth is that this area of the city has little, to say nothing, so we recommend that if you are here, opt to discard it and go through the area of Spaccanapoli, much more lively.
Details of Via Nuova Marina
We arrive almost at 1 noon at the Trianon Pizzeria, where we ordered a couple of pizzas, coke and water for 32 euros.
Eating at Trianon Pizzeria
What a Neapolitan pizza we have enjoyed to say goodbye to this trip to Naples and Pompeii in 4 days. We have to say that we even liked it much more than the one we ate on the first day, when we arrived to visit Herculaneum and Pompeii in one day, at Michele's Pizzeria.
It's almost 2 in the afternoon when we return to UNA Hotel Napoli and we see our Fiat 500 at the door waiting for us.
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We do not want to leave without saying goodbye to Naples from its incredible terrace, so we go up and also take a couple of expresses, which when we are going to pay, they tell us that we are invited.
Saying goodbye to Naples
These types of gestures are what they do and say a lot about a hotel and its staff. Without a doubt, we will not get tired of saying that we are right.
After 2:30 in the afternoon we take our rental car again and head towards the Rome Fiumicino airport.
We are not going to lie to you saying things that are not. We had read and also told us all about drive in Naples. It may have been luck, but we have not found it worse than doing it in any other city in Italy or in a large city in Spain such as Madrid or Barcelona. Yes it is true that they whistle, and much. But hey, looking at it, makes you more alert.
What is certain is that road safety regulations are not as we understand them and if there is a continuous line, it is assumed that they will skip it or you will see changes of meaning in the most unlikely places. But within that, as we said, driving is not as chaotic as we can imagine.
Of course, we do not recommend taking the car to move around the interior of Naples, more than anything to avoid traffic and parking. But it is very good option to move between cities if you are doing a tour of the country.
What is certain is that on many occasions to reach this area of Italy, something that has happened to us, we focus on looking at flights to Rome, which are much cheaper than not to Naples, without taking into account that after We will have to pay for the train that takes us from Rome to Naples or the rental car. In the end, if we compare prices, Barcelona-Naples flights are not so expensive and in case you do not live in the city, you always have the option of being able to reach it by train or bus, for example with GoTicket and thus take advantage if you have found A good flight offer.
Road of Rome Fiumicino
It took us two minutes and three quarters to arrive at the Rome Fiumicino airport from Naples, stopping a few kilometers before filling the tank to deliver it completely, just as we picked it up the day we arrived in Rome.
We take pictures of how the car is before returning it, something that we always advise when renting a car in another country and after returning it we will pass the security checks and settle in one of the seats that have a plug to take advantage of these hours that we have left working a little. Blogger work forces us to work many times in the most unlikely places sitios
We take advantage of how it could not be otherwise to review the notes we bring and after a while we see that on the screens they announce that 87% of flights are delayed by bad weather. Ours announce that it leaves on time, but the truth is that we do not know very well if that will be true or not and we are already preparing for the worst.
And luck we have prepared, because in the end we left more than two hours late, arriving in Barcelona after 1 am. Luckily we have hired the premium service of Aparca i Vola and as soon as we leave Terminal2 we have our car waiting for us to return home and prepare for the next trip.
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