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GETTING THERE & AWAY
Air
Naples International Airport is
called Capodichino Airport. It is
located 8 km northeast of the city
center, and is the gateway to Naples
as well as to the southern Italy.
There is a bus service called
Consorzio Linee Provinciali (CLP)
which leaves for Piazza Garibaldi
and Piazza Muncipio in the city
center every hour from the airport.
The ticket costs about €1.55.
There is also an ANM bus that goes
to the central station about every
25 minutes. Train
Naples is well-served by regionale,
diretto, Intercity and the Eurostar
trains as it is the hub of the
southern Italian rail network and
many trains originating in the north
pass through Rome and terminate
here. The train station is located
in the Piazza Garibaldi east of the
city center. The upper section is
reserved for the state-run trains
whereas the lower level is for the
private Circumvesuviana line that
travels to Pompeii, Herculaneum
(Ercolano), and
Sorrento. Bus
Most buses for Italian and some
European cities leave from Piazza
Garibaldi. You can buy tickets and
catch SITA buses either from the
port, Varco Immacolatella, or from
Via G Ferraris, near Stazione
Centrale; you can also buy tickets
at Bar Clizia. Within Campania, SITA
runs buses to Pompeii (40 mins) and
several other towns on the Amalfi
Coast, and Sa lerno (by motorway).
Casting wider, it also links Naples
with Bari (3 hours) and operates a
service to Germany, including
Dortmund via Munich, Stuttgart,
Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. You can
connect from this service for Berlin
and Hamburg.
The Circumvesuviana lines have
extensive bus service in
Campania. Car
Naples is on the major north-south
Autostrada del Sole, numbered A1
(north to Rome and Milan) and A3
(south to Salerno and Reggio di
Calabria). The A30 skirts Naples to
the northeast, while the A16 heads
northeast to Bari. When approaching
the city, the motorways meet the
Tangenziale di Napoli, a major ring
road around the city. The ring road
hugs the city's northern fringe,
meeting the A1 to Rome and the A2 to
Capodichino airport in the east and
continuing towards Campi Flegrei and
Pozzuoli and the west.
GETTING
AROUND
Traffic in Naples isn't one of
the most organized in the world, and
more often you may find that
exploring the city on foot is not
all that bad. All buses in the city
stop at the Piazza Garibaldi at some
point along their route, and they
are a great way to get around the
city once your legs get weary from
all the walking. Bus tickets can be
purchased at tobacco shops or
newsstands. There are also archeobus
that takes you around to the major
sites around the Vesuvius as well.
Naples also operates two lines of
Metro with the main line running
from Gianturco east of Stazione
Centrale to
Pozzuoli.
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