Day trips

Day trips from Napoli

37 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.

Ercolano
Province: Napoli · 44 m
16 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. The northern gate of the Sorrento peninsula, a clifftop town of ninety meters above the Bay of Napoli.
Sorrento
Province: Napoli · 50 m
57 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. A coastal hamlet of 664 people on the Amalfi Coast, home to a monastery pastry and a sea cave that glows green.
Maiori
Province: Salerno · 5 m
60 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. The vertical village of the Amalfi Coast, terraced houses climbing four hundred meters to the Lattari ridge under a tiled Byzantine dome.
Ravello
Province: Salerno · 365 m
62 minutes from Napoli. A ridge town above the Amalfi Coast where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880.
Amalfi
Province: Salerno · 6 m
63 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. A 250-meter Irpinia hill town on sulfur-rich limestone slopes, twenty kilometers north of Avellino.
Montesarchio
Province: Benevento · 300 m
68 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. The Sorrentine Peninsula's largest commune by area, stretching from Sorrento across Punta Campanella to the Gulf of Salerno, Capri three miles offshore.
Lapio
Province: Avellino · 590 m
70 minutes from Napoli. An 1,428-resident Irpinia hilltop borgo at 590m in the hills east of Avellino, recognised 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 Napoli. The Amalfi commune between Positano and Amalfi where the doges of the maritime republic kept their summer residences and the Path of the Gods starts.
Sessa Aurunca
Province: Caserta · 203 m
72 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. A Roman walled town at the foot of the Matese, founded as a 326 BC oppidum, with Italy's fourth-largest amphitheatre still half-buried.
Capri
Province: Napoli · 142 m
79 minutes from Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. 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 Napoli. The upper half of Capri, 150 meters above its famous twin.
Benevento
Province: Benevento · 130 m
89 minutes from Napoli. Sannio capital at the Calore-Sabato confluence, with a 114 AD Trajan arch and a Lombard rotunda on the UNESCO list.

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