Naples Underground Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour
Naples Underground Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour
Duration: 1.5 hours (approx.)
1.5 hours (approx.)
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience
Expert local tour guide
Expert local tour guide
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Explore Naples Underground with this Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour in Naples, Italy. Delve into history by descending 136 steps to uncover a world beneath the city's surface, featuring ancient Greek cisterns, medieval tunnels, and Bourbon-era shelters. Your expert guide will lead you through well-lit paths showcasing unique attractions like the Arianna seismic station and an underground War Museum.
Explore Naples Underground with this Skip-the-Line Ticket and Guided Tour in Naples, Italy. Delve into history by descending 136 steps to uncover a world beneath the city's surface, featuring ancient Greek cisterns, medieval tunnels, and Bourbon-era shelters. Your expert guide will lead you through well-lit paths showcasing unique attractions like the Arianna seismic station and an underground War Museum.
Explore the 4th-century BC Greek cisterns, then descend through Bourbon and modern tunnels to a depth of 40 meters beneath Naples.
Enjoy a short, candle-lit stretch of tunnel leading to a Roman cistern still filled with water, offering a unique atmospheric experience.
See ancient and recent discoveries in the Roman Theater's Summa Cavea, where you'll find artifacts and traces of Bourbon-era sewers.
At the Hypogeum Gardens, where plants thrives underground, discover an innovative space for scientific botanical research.
Add extra flavour to your English or Italian guided tour with a post-tour pizza experience, including your choice of Margherita or Marinara and a soft drink.
1 to 1.5-hour guided tour of Naples Sotterranea with entry
Expert English or Italian-speaking guide
A Margherita/Marinara pizza with soft drink (as per option selected)
Visitors exploring Bourbon Gallery in Naples underground.
Take the official and authorized Naples Underground tour with an expert English or Italian-speaking guide.
What to expect
Into the layers of Naples
Descend 136 steps into the depths of Naples’ underground, 40 meters below the surface, and uncover a hidden world shaped by centuries of history. Explore ancient Greek cisterns, medieval tunnels, and Bourbon-era shelters, once used for water storage and wartime protection. Walk along well-lit pathways to discover the Arianna seismic station, a unique underground greenhouse, and a War Museum that vividly recounts Naples’ wartime past.
Unique underground chambers
Your journey continues to the Roman Theater, where you'll enter a typical Neapolitan home to discover Emperor Nero’s private dressing rooms. In the Summa Cavea, explore a fascinating permanent exhibition of antique nativity scenes alongside remnants of Bourbon-era sewers. Conclude your adventure at the Hypogeum Gardens, an underground botanical project showcasing innovative crop cultivation in the subsoil—a concept that has drawn the attention of researchers and organizations like NASA. This one-hour experience combines history, science, and natural beauty.
Entrance to Napoli Sotterranea underground ruins in Naples, Italy.
Group touring ancient tunnels in Naples Underground.
Visitors exploring Bourbon Gallery in Naples underground.
Entrance to Napoli Sotterranea underground ruins in Naples, Italy.
Group touring ancient tunnels in Naples Underground.
Naples Underground ruins with ancient stone structures and metal frames.
What to bring
- It's recommended to wear comfortable shoes as this experience involves a fair amount of walking.
What's not allowed
- Pets
Accessibility
- This experience is not accessible by wheelchair or stroller as there are 121 low and wide steps to access the underground with no elevators or escalators.
Additional information
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For people with claustrophobia: There is one optional narrow tunnel. Those who do not want to walk the tunnel can take an alternate route and wait 10 minutes for the group.
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Please note that Italian tours run hourly from 10am to 5pm, and guests must arrive at the meeting point 30 minutes before their chosen slot.
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If you opt for the post-tour pizza experience, the pizza will be served at the end of the tour at Le Sorelle Bandiera (Vico Cinquesanti 33), where your guided visit concludes. Guides will drop you off at the pizzeria entrance, and you can claim your Margherita or Marinara pizza and drink by showing your tour ticket or voucher.
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Guests may choose to enjoy their pizza on-site or take it away. Any extra toppings or additions are available for purchase separately.
Naples Underground hypogeum garden with plants under artificial lights.
Underground hypogeum garden with plants and lights in Napoli Sotterranea, Naples.
Naples Underground ruins with ancient stone structures and metal frames.
Naples Underground hypogeum garden with plants under artificial lights.
Underground hypogeum garden with plants and lights in Napoli Sotterranea, Naples.
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