Things to do in Naples this weekend: 13-15 November 2026

Wednesday 11 November is San Martino, the day of new wine and the first chestnuts, but the weekend that follows is mostly about Beethoven, two neighbourhood walks and the seafront closed for sport. The Teatro di San Carlo runs two different programmes in three days, Capodimonte stays open late on Saturday, and both Sanità and the Spanish Quarters have a guided walk. The page that updates every morning stays this weekend.

A Beethoven weekend at the San Carlo

The Teatro di San Carlo holds together two different sides of Beethoven. Friday and Saturday at 19:00, Daniel Oren conducts the Ninth Symphony, with the theatre's orchestra, choir and four soloists including bass Michele Pertusi: seventy-five minutes with no interval, only two nights, so book early. Sunday at 18:00 it switches to chamber music with the Septets by Beethoven and Kreutzer, seven musicians from the orchestra comparing two pieces in the same key and scoring, 18 euros in any seat. For a free concert, Friday at 18:00 brings a recital by Michele Campanella at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella: the Neapolitan pianist receives the prize for the conservatory's bicentenary and plays Schubert, free entry until the hall fills up.

Capodimonte by night, and dance in the Salone delle Feste

On Saturday the Museo di Capodimonte stays open until 23:30, last entry at 22:30, with fewer crowds and a different light on the paintings: 5 euros, 2 for under 25s. The same weekend, in the Salone delle Feste, Italian-British duo IgorxMoreno bring Bivi for the Movimentale festival, live dance and singing inspired by Annibale Carracci's «Hercules at the Crossroads»: Saturday at 20:00 and 21:00, Sunday at 17:00 and 18:00, 5 euros on top of the museum ticket.

Sanità and the Spanish Quarters, two walks

Saturday at 15:00, Lux in Fundo sets off, two and a half hours on foot through the Sanità district starting from the church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi: it repeats every Saturday, but booking is required. Sunday at 10:00, Insolitaguida covers the same district from a different angle, from Porta San Gennaro to Palazzo dello Spagnolo, finishing with a fiocco di neve pastry from Poppella, 15 euros. For an evening option there's Napoli Esoterica with De Rebus Neapolis, running both Saturday and Sunday between Gesù Nuovo and Santa Chiara, with the story of the so-called tomb of Dracula at Santa Maria la Nova.

Sport and open-air markets

Saturday and Sunday the Caracciolo seafront closes for Sprint Caracciolo, a triathlon and aquathlon with the swim leg starting from Rotonda Diaz: it's free to watch from the railing, with the best spot at the curve of piazza Vittoria. Sunday in Bagnoli there's instead Viva la strada, a five-kilometre run or walk with no ranking, held in memory of road victims, starting at 12:30 from the Auditorium Porta del Parco. For grocery shopping, on Saturday the Campagna Amica farmers set up stalls in piazza Mercadante and in Posillipo from 8:30 to 13:30, while on Sunday they move to piazza Bovio, and the Ippodromo di Agnano opens its antiques market as early as 6:00, with the best pieces gone by 9:00.

At the theatre: comedy and plays

Friday at 21:00, Roberto Ciufoli brings Homo Ridens to the Palapartenope, a comic evening on the lighter side. At the Teatro Totò, Sesso, rose e terapia is on stage, a comedy about couple's therapy sessions that end worse than they start, Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 17:30 and 21:00, Sunday at 18:00, and it repeats the following weekend too. At the Trianon Viviani, singer-songwriter Dadà presents Le fiabe di donna Ruvia, Saturday at 21:00 and Sunday at 18:00, while at the Teatro Nuovo La incoscienza di Zeno adapts Svevo's novel, Saturday at 19:00 and Sunday at 18:30.

With Beethoven in two different theatres and two neighbourhoods to walk through in the same weekend, the map of Naples helps make sense of what's near what. The whole month is covered in Things to do in Naples, Italy in November 2026; for any other date, Things to do in Naples shows events and bookable experiences day by day.