How to visit and what to see in the Vomero district, the bourgeois face of Naples

Nápoles It is a city of great contrasts that leads people who have visited this city of Southern Italy to be passionate about it, or hate it and not want to visit it again.

But without a doubt, of the many faces that the city shows you, you will find the most bourgeois in the Vomero neighborhood.

This neighborhood is spread out along the hill that rises above the city, and from which you have the best panoramic views of the city. Gulf of Naples, including the volcano Vesuvius and also islands like Capri.

I can tell you that on your walk through the neighborhood of Vomero You will not have the feeling of finding yourself in the chaotic city of Naples.

This is the Vomero neighborhood of Naples, the best thing to see

What's more, nowadays its residents always talk about “they go down to Naples“, as if it were another city; and indeed it was like that until the end of the 19th century, when Vomero It was integrated as another neighborhood of Naples.

Although the Romans already settled in the Vomero hillIn reality, this was very little inhabited until the 19th century, although from the beginning it became the place where the wealthiest people established a second residence.

Carthusian Monastery of San Martino

As historical milestones, it is worth highlighting the construction in 1325 of the Carthusian monastery of San Martino, originally Angevin.

Later reforms made it the greatest expression of the baroque in Naples, and one of the most important current monuments of the city.

Now inside it houses the National Museum of San Martino where numerous artistic works are preserved, with paintings, frescoes, sculptures... and a curious and complete Neapolitan nativity scene museum.

San Telmo Castle

Around that same time, the first buildings of what is now the medieval castle of San Telmo,

It is a large fortification surrounded by moats that underwent a very important reconstruction starting in 1537, by order of the King Charles I of Spain.

Now when you walk through the neighborhood of Vomero, whose nerve center is the Vanvitelli square, you see mansions and mansions, in many cases surrounded by lush gardens.

San Martino Viewpoint

In the upper part of the neighborhood there are some viewpoints in front of the aforementioned Carthusian monastery, from which you have the best panoramic views of the city of Naples, with Vesuvius in the background.

From the lower area of ​​Naples you can upload to Vomero using any of the funiculars that since the end of the 19th century have been installed, such as that of Chiaia, Montesanto, or the most recent Central FunicularOf 1928.

You can also walk up from the main square of the aforementioned Vomero neighborhood, Vanvitelli.

And if you have decided, like we did, to sign up for Naples City Tour on the double-decker tourist bus, to go up to San Martino you must take line C.

The viewpoint is precisely the main attraction of this tour, and the bus will stop for a while there so you can get off and take photos.

Photos of the Vomero Neighborhood in Naples

Here you have more photos of the Vomero neighborhood in Naples.