The visit includes:
1) Greco-Roman aqueduct / medieval tunnels / Bourbon tunnels / modern tunnels Going down 136 steps, low and comfortable, we will reach a depth of approx. 40 m, where we will visit some of the tuffaceous cavities excavated in the Greek era (4th century BC), used as cisterns for the water supply of our city for about 23 centuries and then used as anti-aircraft shelters during the Second World War.
Along the way you will visit the scientific laboratory where the “Arianna” seismic station was installed, the greenhouse, the underground gardens and the War Museum.
The rooms crossed are all large and illuminated, except for a very short stretch whose path is, however, optional but full of charm because it is illuminated by the light of candles and leads to the Roman cistern with water. Furthermore, the walking surface is regular and straight. The visit has a total duration of about an hour.
Also free of charge you will visit:
1) Visit to the incorporated remains of the Roman Theater.
Visit of a part of the Roman Theater in Naples, incorporated in the fifteenth century, by the houses existing today in Via Anticaglia, Vico Cinquesanti and Via S. Paolo. We will enter a typical Neapolitan house, commonly called “basso”, because it is located on the street level of the city, and already there we will find ourselves in the Roman theater.
It will be enough to move a bed and open a hatch to access other rooms where Nero had his private dressing rooms, every time he came to stage his shows in Naples.
The duration of the visit is approximately 20 minutes.
2) Summa Cavea: we have recently expanded the path with a new discovery.In fact, in an ancient carpentry, another fragment of the theater reappears, inside which a permanent exhibition has been set up with about thirty antique scarabattoli, in dark wood, to guard scenes of the nativity and the popular nativity scene.
All around, opus reticulatum and latericium. We are in the intrados-summa cavea of the Greek – Roman theater in Vico Cinquesanti behind Piazza San Gaetano, a remote agora of Neapolis.
Inside the new portion of the Roman theater that has just been brought back to life, a new discovery has also been made.
In the floor ran small channels that were completely blocked by the resulting material generated by the circular saw.
During the cleaning, the presence of drains of the sewers of the Bourbon period, made with riggiole from blue drawings, came out.
Those channels have been protected by grates and are visible.
Hypogeum Gardens We have recently expanded the path with a new project. In the darkness of the subsoil of Naples, at a depth of 35 meters, there is life.
Underground Naples, among the many didactic-scientific activities that it makes available to its visitors, also offers the Hypogeum Gardens.
The initiative was born on the eve of Expo 2015 Milan dedicated to feeding the Planet Earth: a vegetable garden in the bowels of the earth.
An environment that is only apparently hostile, but far from acid rain, polluting fine dust, smog, and microorganisms that are also harmful to human life, protects the crops of classic garden plants.
For some time small crops have been taking place on our balconies of classic ornamental plants and this not only for a phenomenon linked to fashion but also and above all for the need to bring to our tables some products of nature without the inevitable anthropogenic manipulations.
The growing awareness of the extent to which the quality of the ecosystem in which crops destined for human consumption are developed affects the quality of our diet, has led Naples Underground to start a phase of botanical experimentation for its own subsoil.
A subsoil with its gardens is not only open to an audience of Italian and foreign visitors, students, young and old, but also university researchers and botanists who use the Hypogeum Gardens for scientific research.
Not just a didactic possibility, therefore, but an opportunity to verify in the field the growth and development of crops in the subsoil in the absence of natural light.
Humidity of the air and soil with its Ph, the environmental temperature and more generally the microclimate is constantly monitored in correlation with the external climatic parameters.
Sunlight, a decisive element for chlorophyll photosynthesis, is replaced by that emitted by special lamps which guarantee the transformation of carbon dioxide and water molecules into glucose as a nourishing element for plants and oxygen that is transferred from the leaves to the environment. .
The Hypogeum Gardens of Underground Naples project is arousing the scientific interest of both national and international organizations.
The growing interest in the search for extra-planetary life forms and the possibility of giving substance to human settlements outside the planet Earth, has prompted NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to follow with interest and attention the development of studies on underground botany of Underground Naples and of the research bodies that participate in it precisely in the perspective that the conquest of man outside the Earth cannot ignore the colonies of the new autonomous frontiers also from the point of view of nutrition.
Our route is authorized and therefore all safety regulations are respected and guaranteed.
The one location of Underground Naples Association is located in Piazza San Gaetano, 68.
The official route of the Underground Naples Association starts from Piazza San Gaetano, 68.
It is an authorized route that has a regular concession.
Any underground tour that starts from places other than those indicated is not managed by our association.
The official entrance of the Underground Naples Association is only in Piazza San Gaetano 68.
The entrance is marked with white and blue flags.
No, it is not dangerous.
The candlelit path is not only illuminated in some parts. The use of the candle is not mandatory.
Those who prefer can use the flashlight or mobile phone.
We do not give the candle to children.
In the case of school groups, in fact, it is mandatory to bring a small torch.
However, a minimum distance is imposed between one person and another during the passage of the tunnel.
No, we do not take bookings for groups of less than 15 people.
Reservation is required only if you want to make the excursion in languages other than Italian and English, if, despite being less than 15 people, you want a guide dedicated only to your group and in the case of groups of more than 15 people .
In addition, reservations are always required for Thursday evening excursions at 21.00.
route
Does the Underground Naples Association hold a regular concession?
Yes, our concession is displayed on the website footer. Our route starts from Piazza San Gaetano 68, but nowadays there are different paths to access the network of environments underground, which is not yet fully known, in which alternate between cisterns and quarries, tunnels and wells, remains of the Greco-Roman period and catacombs, and the passages that connect various points of the city, even kilometers away, are innumerable.
The first excavation artifacts undergrounds date back to about 5,000 years ago, almost to the end of the prehistoric era.
Subsequently, in the third century BC, the Greeks opened the first underground quarries to extract the tuff blocks necessary for the walls and temples of their Neapolis and excavated numerous rooms to create one series of hypogea funerari. In 1987 Enzo Albertini, speleologist and president of the Association Underground Naples, unearthed a Greek quarry about 40 meters deep by starting one first cognitive activity of the subsoil of Naples.
The path of the underground tunnels of Naples it is not complete and in many parts the paths do not meet, however whole parts of the subsoil attributable to the Greek, Spanish and Bourbon periods.
In our path there are clear signs recognizable and attributable to the Bourbons, this makes our visit one of a kind.
Yes, our concession is displayed on the homepage.
Our route starts from Piazza San Gaetano 68, but nowadays there are different routes to access the network of underground environments, which is not yet fully known, in which alternate between cisterns and quarries, tunnels and wells, remains of the Greek-Roman period and catacombs, and the passages that connect various points of the city even kilometers away are innumerable.
The first artifacts of underground excavations date back to about 5,000 years ago, almost at the end of the prehistoric era. Subsequently, in the third century BC, the Greeks opened the first underground quarries to extract the blocks of tuff necessary for the walls and temples of their Neapolis and excavated numerous rooms to create a series of funerary hypogea.
In 1987 Enzo Albertini, speleologist and president of the Naples Underground Association, unearthed a Greek quarry at a depth of about 40 meters, starting a first discovery activity of the subsoil of Naples.
The path of the underground tunnels of Naples is not complete and in many parts the paths do not meet, however entire parts of the subsoil are visible, attributable to the Greek, Spanish and Bourbon periods.
In our path there are clear recognizable signs that can be traced back to the Bourbons, this makes our visit one of a kind.
informations
Yes, it is.
The path is accessible, along with the stairs that have handrails
No, the spaces are large.
The only narrow tunnel is an optional route.
Those who suffer from claustrophobia or are overweight and do not want to walk the tunnel can wait for the group outside.
The waiting time is about 10 minutes.
The route consists of very large rooms. The only narrow path is a tunnel, but it is optional.
Therefore, those who do not feel like walking through it can wait outside.
Outside the tunnel there are also benches where you can sit while waiting for the rest of the group.
The waiting time is approximately 10 minutes.
Yes, of course, even very young ones.
No, it’s not.
You will have to walk through 121 low and wide steps to access the underground. There are no elevators or escalators. You can leave the stroller at the main entrance and pick it up at the exit.
get to
Underground Naples
From Central Station (Piazza Garibaldi): Subway Line 1 – direction Piscinola – Dante stop.
Keep on walking down Via Port’Alba, Via San Pietro a Maiella, Piazza Miraglia, Via Dei Tribunali – Piazza San Gaetano.
From Capodichino Airport: 250 m from terminal 1 (in front of Banco di Napoli) take the ANM ALIBUS bus line – Piazza Garibaldi stop – Metro Line 1 – direction Piscinola – Dante stop.
Keep on walking down Via Port’Alba, Via San Pietro a Maiella, Piazza Miraglia, Via Dei Tribunali – Piazza San Gaetano.
From the Port: Reach Piazza Municipio – Via De Pretis – Bus Line R4 towards Cardarelli Hospital – Piazza Dante (4th stop) – Continue on Via Port’Alba, Via San Pietro a Maiella, Piazza Miraglia, Via Dei Tribunali – Piazza San Gaetano.
The historic center is part of the ZTL – Limited Traffic Zone – therefore it is possible to park in Via Duomo, Corso Umberto, Piazza Cavour and Via Costantinopoli where there are paid parking lots or municipal parking spaces with paid parking.
Underground Naples is 5 minutes walking distance.