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Romantic Spots

Villa La Floridiana, Naples
Lucia Migliaccio, Duchess of Floridia, once called this sumptuous place home a love token from her husband, Ferdinand I, whose morganatic wife she became soon after the death of his first wife, Maria Carolina of Austria. Not only is the story romantic but the situation itself affords some of the finest views of the city and the bay. The gardens are good for hours of peaceful strolling, and the main building is now a museum filled with delightful treasures
Via Domenico Cimarosa 77
Marechiaro
This little fishing village between the tip of Capo di Posillipo and Punta del Cavallo is famous with locals for its timetested romantic atmosphere. The vista from here is said to be so gorgeus that even the fish come here to woo their sweet hearts, especially by the light of the moon. There are a number of excellent and inviting restaurants clustered around the prime viewing spot, all specializing in fish, of course.
Blue Grotto, Capri
So beautiful is the radiant aquamarine that glows upwards from inside this cave that it is truly indescribable. As you are ferried through the tiny entrance by a boatman you will find complete serenity.
Villa Cimbrone Gardens, Ravello
Greta Garbo enjoyed her love affair with the conductor Arturo Toscanini in this beautiful spot, declared by American writer Gore Vidal to be one of the most beautiful places on earth. In the 2004 it reopened as a hotel, so now you too can wander the many mazelike plantings and terraced levels filled with hidden treasures and beautiful statues.
Paestum
These Greek temples and their verdant setting are most evocative at dawn or sunset, when it is possible to imagine what the ancient city might have been like. Spend the day here to explore these remains of one of history's most evolved cultures.

Hidden Attractions

Napoli sotterranea
This tour's entrance is next to San Paolo Maggiore and takes you into a wold of excavations that date back to the 4th century BC. The digging began when the Greeks quarried large tufa blocks to build the city of Neapolis. Caves were also dug here to be used as tombs. Centuries later the Romans turned this underground area into aqueducts and cisterns, which were in use untile the cholera epidemic of 1884.
Piazza San Gaetano 68
San Severo Catacombs
Naples' first bishop was buried here in the 4th century and, as was customary, a large underground cemetery grew up around his tomb. Among the catacombs' paintings is a fresco showing the earliest images in Naples of saints Peter and Paul.
Piazzetta San Severo a Capodimonte 81
San Gaudioso Catacombs
This labyrinth of tunnels was built by the Romans for use as cisterns. It evolved into catacombs in the 5th century, when St Gaudiosus, a North African bishop and hermit, was interred here. You can see the remains of fresco and mosaic decorations.
Basilica of Sta Maria della Sanità, via della Sanità 124
Cimitero delle Fontanelle
Once a Roman quarry for tufa blocks, this cavern became a gruesome depository for the city's dead during the cholera epidemic of 1884. Graves and tombs were emptied all over Naples and the skull stacked here, some 40000 in all, with the addition of still more during the cholera outbreak of 1974.
Via delle Fontanelle 154
San Gennaro Catacombs
Burials here date as far back as the 2nd century and the site was originally used by pagans as well as Christians. In the 5th century, the doby of San Gennaro, Naple's patron saint, was brought here, and the place became an important pilgrimage site. Frescoes and mosaics on the two levels of this vast layout attest to its importance over the centuries.
Via Capodimonte 13
Tomb of Virgil and Crypta Neapolitana
What is known as Virgil's tomb is a Roman burial vault that dates back to the Augustan age. It is a typical columbarium, the "dovecote" style of burial, with niches for urns containing the ashes of deceased. The Romans later took to burying their dead in sarcophagi (coffins), as the fashion changed to belief in an afterlife, perhaps adopted from Egyptians.