75 min
10 min
50 min
Metro 2 · Metro 6 · Cumana
2.1 / km²
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Staying in Fuorigrotta & Bagnoli
Fuorigrotta is behind Posillipo hill, which is why it exists as a separate place: post-war blocks, wide roads, the Stadio Maradona, the Mostra d'Oltremare exhibition grounds and about 70,000 residents who have no particular reason to go into the centre. Bagnoli, further west, is the site of the Italsider steelworks that closed in 1993 and is still being cleaned up, with Città della Scienza, a pier and summer beach clubs on the shore.
People book here because it is cheap and the map makes it look like Naples. The connections are genuinely fine in daylight - Line 6 to Municipio, Line 2 to Piazza Garibaldi, the Cumana to Montesanto - but every one of them takes twenty minutes or more and there is nothing at this end worth the return trip. On a match day, add 50,000 people to the same trains.
The honest case for booking here is narrow: a trade fair at the Mostra d'Oltremare, a Napoli match, a car you need to park, or a beach day at Bagnoli. For a first visit to Naples, this is the zone people wish they had not saved money on.
What works
- The cheapest rooms in Naples with a real rail connection
- Line 6, Line 2 and the Cumana all serve the zone
- Bagnoli has actual seafront: the pier, the beach clubs and Città della Scienza
- Parking exists here, which is not true of anywhere central
- The right base for a trade fair at the Mostra d'Oltremare or a match
What does not
- Twenty minutes and a tunnel to the centre, each way, every day
- Nothing in the zone is on anybody's list of reasons to visit Naples
- Match days fill the trains and shut the roads around the stadium
- Bagnoli is a long-running remediation site, not a resort
- The evening is dead: this is a commuter district, and it behaves like one
If you ever hang out in Fuorigrotta borough on Sundays, near the Maradona stadium, and are surprised by a booming shout of thousands of people, don't get scared: it's only cheering for the Napoli soccer team which just scored.A walk of 900 m (½ mile) suspended on the waters of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, along a concrete pier built in 1962 to serve a former steel mill, closed in 1993 and now dismantled.