--- title: "Naples – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Naples, Italy: Naples is the regional capital of Campania, southern Italy. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/napoli" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/napoli.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Teatro_San_Carlo_large_view.jpg/1920px-Teatro_San_Carlo_large_view.jpg" --- Regional capital city of Campania, Italy # Naples Naples is the regional capital of Campania, southern Italy. ![Naples](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Teatro_San_Carlo_large_view.jpg/1920px-Teatro_San_Carlo_large_view.jpg) Naples · Sony photographer (Public domain) The place Naples is the regional capital of Campania, southern Italy. With a population of 905,050 within the city's administrative limits as of 2026, it is the largest city in southern Italy and the third-largest city in Italy after Rome and Milan, while its province-level municipality is the third most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,954,847 residents – or the second largest according to OECD data. Its metropolitan area, the seventh most populous in the European Union, has a population of approximately 4.4 million and stretches beyond the boundaries of the city proper for approximately 30 kilometres. Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, being home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Naples **Airports:** Naples (NAP), 7 km · Ciampino–G. B. Pastine (CIA), 175 km · Abruzzo (PSR), 177 km\ - Rome → Naples 187 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rome-to-naples) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rome&to=Naples) - Pescara → Naples 179 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/pescara-to-naples) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Pescara&to=Naples) - Bari → Naples 220 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €26–37 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bari-to-naples) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bari&to=Naples) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Naples) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Naples Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Naples. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in }} From the airport you can take a bus for €5 (called Alibus) which has two stops only: Stazione Centrale (Central station) and Piazza Municipio, near the main ferry port (molo Beverello). - Get in Beware of (legal) taxi drivers on the way to the Alibus stop, who claim to charge the same price as the Alibus, but actually also charge for children and go only once the minivan is full. - Get in From around the station, the bus routes Alibus, R2 and 151, the tram route 1 and the metro Line 1 will take you within three blocks of the ferries at Stazione Marittima. - Get in MedMar Group operates several large ferry/passenger ships that connect Naples with Sardinia (Olbia), Corsica (Porto-Vecchio), Tunisia (Tunis), and the Aeolian Islands. - Get in Tirrenia Navigazione operates an overnight ferry service that has two separate routes, one to Sardinia (Cagliari) and the other to Sicily (Palermo). From [Wikivoyage: Naples](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Naples), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 320 km 2. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 336 km 3. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 343 km 4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 522 km 5. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 779 km If you know how people move in Naples – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnapoli&title=Naples&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnapoli), and the note gets an entry. 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