Day trips
Day trips from Naples
39 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Ercolano is 16 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
The towns
Ercolano
Province: Napoli · 44 m
16 minutes from Naples. Ercolano is the modern town built directly over Herculaneum, the Roman seaside resort buried under 25m of pyroclastic mud in AD 79 rather than the ash that fell on Pompeii, which is why its wood, papyrus, and upper floors survive when no other Roman site's do.
Torre Annunziata
Province: Napoli · 15 m
22 minutes from Naples. Capital of Italian pasta in the interwar period and home of the Roman Villa di Poppea, on the bay at the foot of Vesuvius.
Pompei
Province: Napoli · 30 m
24 minutes from Naples. The Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, dug back up since 1748, and a modern town around Bartolo Longo's 1876 sanctuary.
Pozzuoli
Province: Napoli · 28 m
25 minutes from Naples. A Roman port on a volcanic caldera, the Greek Dicearchia and the Roman Puteoli, where a market's columns first proved that the ground itself rises and falls.
Nola
Province: Napoli · 34 m
28 minutes from Naples. The Campanian plain town where Augustus died in AD 14 and Giordano Bruno was born in 1548, famous for the June Festa dei Gigli.
Bacoli
Province: Napoli · 30 m
31 minutes from Naples. A town twenty kilometers west of Napoli, the Roman Bauli, where a cistern fed the imperial fleet at Miseno.
Caserta
Province: Caserta · 68 m
38 minutes from Naples. Italy's answer to Versailles, built by the Bourbons on the Campanian plain with 1,200 rooms and a three-kilometer water axis.
Piano di Sorrento
Province: Napoli · 96 m
49 minutes from Naples. The quieter Sorrentine plain four kilometers from Sorrento, autonomous since 1808, with prehistoric Gaudo pottery and a black-sand marina at the foot of the cliff.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento · 156 m
51 minutes from Naples. A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Vietri sul Mare
Province: Salerno · 80 m
51 minutes from Naples. The eastern end of the Amalfi Coast at 80 meters, the ceramics town since the fifteenth century, the gateway between Salerno and the cliff road.
Furore
Province: Salerno · 300 m
52 minutes from Naples. The Amalfi Coast village with no piazza and no center, scattered on rock walls 300 meters above the only fjord in southern Italy.
Caiazzo
Province: Caserta · 200 m
53 minutes from Naples. A Cittaslow hill above the Volturno, turned by Franco Pepe's pizza into a destination for 800 covers a day in eighteenth-century rooms.
Mercogliano
Province: Avellino · 550 m
53 minutes from Naples. A 550-meter Irpinia town on the slope of Partenio, gateway to the Montevergine Sanctuary 1,270 meters above.
Cetara
Province: Salerno · 10 m
55 minutes from Naples. The Amalfi Coast's working tuna and anchovy port, where colatura di alici is still aged in chestnut barrels in the cellars behind the marina.
Vico Equense
Province: Napoli · 90 m
55 minutes from Naples. The northern gate of the Sorrento peninsula, a clifftop town of ninety meters above the Bay of Napoli.
Summonte
Province: Avellino · 738 m
56 minutes from Naples. An Irpinia hill village at 738 meters on the slope of the Partenio massif, built around a 16-meter Angevin cylinder tower.
Sorrento
Province: Napoli · 50 m
57 minutes from Naples. The Roman Surrentum on a tuff cliff above the Bay of Napoli, sacked by the Turks in 1558.
Conca dei Marini
Province: Salerno · 138 m
58 minutes from Naples. A coastal hamlet of 644 people on the Amalfi Coast, home to a monastery pastry and a sea cave that glows green.
Vairano Patenora
Province: Caserta · 168 m
59 minutes from Naples. A roofless Aragonese castle with four round towers stands over a walled stone borgo in the Volturno valley, on the road that carried emperors and popes between Rome and Naples.
Maiori
Province: Salerno · 5 m
60 minutes from Naples. The Amalfi Coast town with the longest beach and a grid street plan, rebuilt after the 1954 flood took the medieval lanes.
Tramonti
Province: Salerno · 321 m
60 minutes from Naples. The inland side of the Amalfi Coast, thirteen hamlets on the Lattari slopes producing wine and an exported pizza dough.
Positano
Province: Salerno · 30 m
61 minutes from Naples. The vertical village of the Amalfi Coast, terraced houses climbing four hundred meters to the Lattari ridge under an eighteenth-century majolica dome.
Ravello
Province: Salerno · 365 m
62 minutes from Naples. A ridge town above the Amalfi Coast where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno · 6 m
63 minutes from Naples. The first Italian maritime republic and the coast it named, six meters above the sea between cliffs that close around the duomo's steps.
Atrani
Province: Salerno · 21 m
63 minutes from Naples. The smallest commune in Italy by area, twelve hectares of stacked houses where the Amalfi Coast pinches shut around a single piazza.
Minori
Province: Salerno · 13 m
63 minutes from Naples. The smaller of the two Rheginnae, where a first-century Roman maritime villa sits four blocks from the Tyrrhenian beach.
Tufo
Province: Avellino · 250 m
66 minutes from Naples. A 250-meter Irpinia hill town on sulfur-rich limestone slopes, twenty kilometers north of Avellino.
Montesarchio
Province: Benevento · 300 m
68 minutes from Naples. Ancient Caudium at 300 meters, a Roman defeat still attached to the name two thousand years later.
Massa Lubrense
Province: Napoli · 121 m
69 minutes from Naples. The Sorrentine Peninsula's second-largest commune by area, after Vico Equense, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.
Lapio
Province: Avellino · 590 m
70 minutes from Naples. A 1,426-resident Irpinia hilltop borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, recognized by a rare four-signal combination (Città del Vino + Olio + Miele + Nocciola) for the whole local agricultural ecosystem.
Praiano
Province: Salerno · 120 m
72 minutes from Naples. The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and one access route to the Path of the Gods starts.
Sessa Aurunca
Province: Caserta · 203 m
72 minutes from Naples. Ancient Suessa Aurunca on the south slope of an extinct volcano, with a Romanesque cathedral of Cosmatesque mosaics built in 1103.
Alife
Province: Caserta · 110 m
76 minutes from Naples. A Roman walled town at the foot of the Matese, its first-century BC rectangle of walls intact, with a half-buried amphitheatre just outside the gates.
Capri
Province: Napoli · 142 m
79 minutes from Naples. The 142-meter Tyrrhenian island town where Tiberius governed Rome for a decade from twelve villas above limestone cliffs.
Nusco
Province: Avellino · 914 m
81 minutes from Naples. The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Cerreto Sannita
Province: Benevento · 290 m
85 minutes from Naples. A Sannio ceramics town at 290 meters, replanned on an orthogonal grid after the 1688 earthquake leveled the old hill.
Taurasi
Province: Avellino · 400 m
85 minutes from Naples. An Irpinia wine village at 400 meters above the Calore valley, the southern home of Aglianico called Barolo of the South.
Anacapri
Province: Napoli · 275 m
86 minutes from Naples. The upper half of Capri, 150 meters above its famous twin.
Benevento
Province: Benevento · 130 m
89 minutes from Naples. Sannio capital at the Calore-Sabato confluence, with a 114 AD Trajan arch and a Lombard rotunda on the UNESCO list.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Tignale
Province: Brescia
A six-hamlet commune on a high terrace above Lake Garda's western shore, anchored by a clifftop sanctuary and the last working limonaie north of Salò.
Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Cisternino
Province: Brindisi
An Itria valley borgo on the southern Murgia at 394 meters, whitewashed and looking down over drystone walls and trulli.
Pieve di Teco
Province: Imperia
A planned market town founded in 1233 in the middle Arroscia valley, with porticoed Corso Ponzoni and one of the smallest theaters in Italy.
Cascia
Province: Perugia
Santa Rita's town at 653 meters in the upper Valnerina, in the seismic corner of Umbria that the 2016 earthquake reopened.