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Thursday 12 November: what’s on in the city today, and experiences you can still book at the last minute.

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This page rebuilds itself every morning with the day’s programme: what’s happening around Naples, with times, venues and prices, all checked by our team. If nothing grabs you, the experiences at the bottom run almost every day, and many can be booked until a few hours before.

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Exhibitions, tours, markets and everything that happens before evening.

all dayFuturo Remoto 2026, 40 years of the science festival at Città della ScienzaDon’t misson nowCittà della Scienza, via Coroglio 104 · Workshops · until Sun 15 NovThe science festival turns 40 and for six days entry to Città della Scienza is free, exhibitions and workshops included. On 10 November, the guest is Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Georg Nagel, with a live link from the ELT telescope in Chile.Free; Planetarium and Science Centre by booking, while places lastDetails

all day«Alla prova del tempo», a festival of history and metamorphosis at the Maschio AngioinoMaschio Angioino, piazza Municipio · Art · until Sat 14 NovThree days of talks with historians, philosophers and writers on the theme of metamorphosis: from the leap between prehistory and history to digital transformation, up to the role of the intellectual in the social media age. Free entry to the Sala dei Baroni at the Maschio Angioino, first come, first served.FreeDetails

8.30pmTrio Hermes and Guido Barbieri on Goya and Beethoven at the Anglican ChurchChiesa Anglicana (Anglican Church), Chiaia · ShowsViolin, cello and piano, with Guido Barbieri telling the parallel lives of Goya and Beethoven. The church on via San Pasquale has warm, intimate acoustics, €20.€20Details

9pmFanali at the Teatro NuovoTeatro Nuovo, Montecalvario · ShowsA show at the Teatro Nuovo, at 9pm. Tickets on the website.€15Details

9pmFabrizio Moro, Non ho paura di nienteCasa della Musica, Fuorigrotta · ShowsThe Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio Moro in concert at the Casa della Musica, one flat ticket price of forty-nine euros. A more intimate format than the arenas, good if you'd rather listen up close.€49Details

Tue, Thu and Fri 8.45pm, Wed 5.30pm, Sat 7pm, Sun 6pmEmigranti by Mrożek at the Teatro Bellinion nowTeatro Bellini, Old Town · Shows · until Sun 15 NovValerio Santoro and Claudio Casadio play the two emigrants shut in a basement in Sławomir Mrożek's play, directed by Leo Muscato. There's a Wednesday matinee at 5.30pm, handy if you'd rather not make it a late one.€18-30, under-29s €15Details

all dayVestire la Canzone, the exhibition on Vincenzino Russo at Napulitanataon nowNapulitanata, piazza Museo 10 · Art · until Thu 31 DecFor the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vincenzino Russo, the composer of the Neapolitan songs «Torna maggio» and «I' te vurria vasà» (I'd Like to Kiss You), Napulitanata (opposite the MANN) is exhibiting period sheet music and song booklets with the images and costumes from his songs. Free entry by booking at mostra@napulitanata.com.FreeDetails

10amLiving Collapse, the nativity scene through contemporary eyes at the Museo Madreon nowMuseo Madre, Old Town · Art · until Mon 16 NovThe second exhibition of the Premio Meridiana: three artists from Campania rethink the tradition of the presepe, the Neapolitan nativity scene, starting from Jimmie Durham's Presepio. It's covered by the same €8 ticket as the other exhibitions.€8Details

10am-1pmTerme di Agnano, Benessere Integrato: six days of health, nutrition and relaxationon nowTerme di Agnano, Agnano · Workshops · until Thu 26 NovFrom 23 October to 26 November, each date at Terme di Agnano combines a bit of science, a cooking demo and a spa session, directed by Annamaria Colao and chef Giuseppe D'Addio. It's free but you need to book on Eventbrite, spots run out.Free, book on EventbriteDetails

11amFiabe d'Autunno, walking fairy-tale theatre at the Botanical Gardenon nowReal Orto Botanico, via Foria 223, San Carlo all'Arena · Shows · until Sun 22 NovEvery Saturday and Sunday morning the company I Teatrini leads children and parents through the trees inside a fairy tale, from the Pied Piper to Oz to the Ugly Duckling. Booking is compulsory, with a maximum of 80 children per show, and it's cancelled if it rains.€9Details

11amFamily workshops this autumn at the Reggia di Casertaon nowReggia di Caserta, Caserta · Workshops · until Sun 29 NovFrom November, the Reggia runs themed workshops for children aged 5 to 10, from the colours of emotions to little court painters, one Saturday or Sunday a month in the park. The workshop ticket is on top of the entry ticket, so it's worth booking online before you set off.€5 plus entryDetails

12 student concerts at 1.30pm and 6 teacher concerts at 5pm, on the dates in the programmeIt is open to everyone, free concerts by the Conservatory at the Gallerie d'Italiaon nowGallerie d'Italia, via Toledo 177, Toledo · Art · until Thu 26 NovStudents and teachers from the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory play chamber music and jazz inside the palazzo on via Toledo, which also holds Caravaggio's Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. The lunchtime concerts are short: walk in from the Toledo metro stop and take a seat while there's room.Free, subject to availabilityDetails

7.30pm-11.30pm, last entry 10.30pmSpecial evening openings at the Capodimonte museumMuseo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Capodimonte · Art · until Sat 12 DecThree evenings, on 12 and 14 November and then 12 December, when the rooms at Capodimonte stay open until 11.30pm with smaller crowds and a different light on the paintings. The evening ticket costs less than usual and you can get in until 10.30pm, handy if you work during the day.€5 full price, €2 under 25Details

8.30amArchetipi, Antonio Biasiucci at the Reggia di Casertaon nowReggia di Caserta, Gran Galleria, Caserta · Art · until Mon 30 NovOver 300 photographs and installations by Antonio Biasiucci, from steam to bread to volcanoes, along the Gran Galleria of the Royal Apartments. It's included in the Reggia ticket, and the palace is closed on Tuesdays.€18Details

8.30pmIl medico dei pazzi by Scarpetta at Galleria Toledoon nowGalleria Toledo, Quartieri Spagnoli · Shows · until Sun 15 NovLaura Angiulli directs Eduardo Scarpetta's farce with Agostino Chiummariello and a large cast, sets by Rosario Squillace. Almost a month of performances, Fridays at 9pm and Sundays at 6pm.Tickets on the websiteDetails

8.30pmLa vasca with Anna Bonaiuto at the Teatro Mercadanteon nowTeatro Mercadante, Municipio · Shows · until Sun 22 NovAnna Bonaiuto performs Franco Marcoaldi's play, directed by Andrea Renzi. There are several 5pm matinees, handy if you finish work in the centre.from €13Details

9.30am-12.30pmA.D. 1656, the Naples plague in a video installation at Palazzo Carafaon nowPalazzo Diomede Carafa, via San Biagio dei Librai 121, Old Town · Art · until Fri 15 JanA friar's chronicle of the 1656 plague and Micco Spadaro's painting of piazza Mercatello become an immersive story, inside a palazzo on Spaccanapoli. Entry is in groups of 25 at 9.30am, 10.30am and 11.30am, Monday to Friday, plus special openings on 3 and 4 October.FreeDetails

9.30am-4.30pmSuburban Baths of Herculaneum: guided tours of the restoration siteon nowParco Archeologico di Ercolano, corso Resina 187, Herculaneum · Art · until Sat 12 DecEvery Saturday groups of 15 put on hard hats and go into the Roman baths overlooking the ancient beach, normally closed to the public. The ticket includes the excavations too, and under-18s go free.€21Details

9.30am-6pm, last entry 45 minutes before closingIl colore di Mimmo Jodice at the Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaroon nowMuseo del Tesoro di San Gennaro, via Duomo 149, Old Town · Art · until Sun 10 JanMore than forty colour photographs by Jodice, the only colour work of his career: hands, faces and drapery taken from seventeenth-century Neapolitan paintings, from Ribera to Artemisia. It runs until 10 January, so it's a good hour indoors on a rainy day over the holidays, just steps from the Duomo.Included with the museum ticketDetails

9am-9pmInferno di Dante, an immersive experience at Città della Scienzaon nowCittà della Scienza, Bagnoli · Art · until Thu 31 DecInside Città della Scienza, a roughly 70 minute journey through holograms and virtual reality, narrated by Luca Ward as he tells the story of Dante's descent into Hell. Open daily from 9am to 9pm until the end of December, tickets from €20.€20, reduced €15, family ticket €50Details

9pmNeanche parenti at the Piccolo BelliniPiccolo Bellini, Old Town · Shows · until Sun 6 DecA new play written and directed by Gabriele Russo and Arianna D'Angiò, running for almost a month in the Bellini's small studio theatre. Tickets are cheaper on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and on Sundays it starts at 6.30pm.from €15Details

all dayVoyageur, Ibrahim Mahama's three boats in piazza Municipioon nowPiazza Municipio, San Ferdinando · Art · until Wed 18 NovThree wooden boats built in Ghana, up to 8 metres high, rise out of the paving in front of the port like shipwrecks. Stop by at sunset as you come out of Municipio metro station; you can walk all the way round them.FreeDetails

lun-ven 10-14, sabato 10-13, domenica chiusoI confini del mio mondo sono io: the exhibition on Luca De Filippoon nowPalazzo Scarpetta, Fondazione Eduardo De Filippo · Art · until Fri 13 NovAt Palazzo Scarpetta, home of the Fondazione Eduardo De Filippo, posters, costumes and film clips trace Luca De Filippo's career across theatre, film and television. Free entry Monday to Friday 10am-2pm and Saturday 10am-1pm.FreeDetails

lunedì e mer-sab 10-19:30, domenica 10-20, martedì chiusoPOST, Liliana Moro's sound installation at the Madreon nowMuseo Madre, via Settembrini 79, Old Town · Art · until Mon 23 NovIn the Sala delle Colonne at the Madre, from 10 October, a sound installation born out of a workshop Liliana Moro ran with eleven students and PhD candidates from the Accademia di Belle Arti: voices that alternate and overlap around the idea of "after", as a threshold rather than an ending. It takes about fifteen minutes to walk through, best at a quiet time so you can actually hear it. Pair it with "Gli anni. Capitolo 3", in the same museum until 9 November.Museum ticketDetails

mar-ven 10-19, sab-dom 10-20, lunedì chiusoAngelica and Élisabeth, the 18th-century painters at the Gallerie d'Italiaon nowGallerie d'Italia, via Toledo 177, Toledo · Art · until Sun 7 MarAngelica Kauffmann and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the two best-paid painters in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, side by side in the palazzo on via Toledo: court portraits, self-portraits and the Neapolitan works Vigée Le Brun painted here, including Queen Maria Carolina. The show takes about an hour and a half, then coffee on the ground floor. On December weekends, go in at 10am, before via Toledo gets impossible.Gallerie d'Italia ticketDetails

mer-lun 9:30-17, ultimo ingresso 16, martedì chiusoCrochet Coral Reef at Villa Pignatellion nowVilla Pignatelli, Casa della Fotografia, Riviera di Chiaia 200, Chiaia · Art · until Mon 12 AprThe Wertheim sisters rebuild a coral reef out of thousands of crocheted pieces, a project that's been touring the world for twenty years and talks about maths and warming seas. It's in the Casa della Fotografia inside the villa's garden, from October to April. You can see it in half an hour, and it works better with children than a lot of exhibitions made for them.Villa Pignatelli ticketDetails

Monday to Friday, 11am-5pm (closed on public holidays and the day before)Mazzacurati and the monument to the Four Days of Naples, an exhibition at the Maschio Angioinoon nowFondazione Valenzi, Sala Litza Cittanova Valenzi, Maschio Angioino, piazza Municipio, Municipio · Art · until Sat 14 NovPlaster and bronze models, drawings and period photos tell the story of how Marino Mazzacurati arrived at the monument to the Four Days of Naples in piazza della Repubblica. It opens weekdays only and closes at 5pm, so it works well as a lunch break stop, a few steps from the Municipio metro.FreeDetails

Monday to Saturday 11am-1pm and 3pm-7pm; opening Saturday 17 October 11am-7pmAutopsia, a group show at Umberto Di Marino's gallery in Monte di Dioon nowGalleria Umberto Di Marino, via Monte di Dio 9, Pizzofalcone · Art · until Sat 5 DecEight artists including Mario García Torres, Nilbar Güreş and photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya in a group show inside the house turned gallery in Monte di Dio. The gallery closes between 1pm and 3pm, so pair it with a walk up to Pizzofalcone from piazza del Plebiscito.FreeDetails

Thu-Tue 8.30am-5pm, Sundays until 7.30pm; closed WednesdaysAtlas Partenope, Andrea Fogli's exhibition at Capodimonteon nowMuseo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, second floor of the Palazzo Reale, Capodimonte · Art · until Sun 31 JanOn the second floor of the Palazzo Reale, in rooms 81, 83 and 84, Andrea Fogli shows drawings, repainted religious postcards and a raw clay installation devoted to the devotional side of Naples: statues, volcanoes, skulls, rituals. The show, curated by Vincenzo Stanziola, is included in the normal museum ticket until 31 January.€15, €2 for ages 18-25, free under 18Details

Times vary by dateCaivano, tutta un'altra musica: the free concert serieson nowVilla Comunale, churches and schools in Caivano, Caivano · Shows · until Fri 26 FebFrom October to February, churches, schools and the Villa Comunale in Caivano host free concerts with names like Peppe Barra (17 October) and Fabrizio Bosso (30 October), almost one date a week. Check the full calendar on the website, because the venue and time change for every date.FreeDetails

Times vary by dateFlow & Fly, the urban circus and hip hop festival in Soccavo and Pianuraon nowParco Don Giussani, Parco Don Gallo, Parco Attianese, Soccavo and Pianura · Shows · until Sun 6 DecUntil 6 December, the Don Giussani, Don Gallo and Attianese parks turn into an open-air stage for acrobats, jugglers and hip hop dancers, all free for children and families. Wear something comfortable and check the weekly programme, because the park changes almost every time.FreeDetails

Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, closed MondaysFisica... Vietato Non Toccare!, the interactive exhibition at Città della Scienzaon nowCittà della Scienza, via Coroglio 104 · Workshops · until Sun 17 JanThe exhibits are hands-on, built to help you understand gravity, electricity, optics and magnetism by watching, trying things out and working it out for yourself. The ticket is the Science Centre's standard one, €10 full price and €8 reduced for children, students and over-65s.€10, reduced €8Details

tutti i giorni 9-17, ultimo ingresso 15:30Philip Colbert at Pompeiion nowParco Archeologico di Pompei · Art · until Mon 30 NovColbert's pop lobsters among the Roman houses, during normal opening hours. They split opinion: some find them brilliant, others out of place. Making up your own mind costs nothing extra.Included in the Pompeii ticketDetails

Workshops open all day; pedestrian one-way system on December weekendsSan Gregorio Armeno nativity fair, from 1 NovemberDon’t misson nowVia San Gregorio Armeno, Old Town · Around town · until Wed 6 JanThis year the fair opens three weeks early, on 1 November, and usually runs through to Epiphany: the red stalls along the nativity-makers' street, the new figurines of the year (expect an America's Cup one), and the workshops at work in their windows. Go on a weekday morning in November, while it's still possible to move; December Saturdays are a slow shuffle. The [practical guide](/blog/san-gregorio-armeno-2026-fiera-presepi) explains what to buy and how much it costs.FreeDetails

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From late afternoon on: concerts, theatre, late museum openings, festivals.

Qualcosa è andato storto by Carlo Buccirosso at the Teatro AcaciaTeatro Acacia, Vomero · ShowsSecond Naples stop for Buccirosso's comedy about a small-town lawyer swept up in family quarrels, this time at the Teatro Acacia (the first run, in late October, is at the Sannazaro). Time and tickets on the theatre's website.Tickets on the websiteDetails

Experiences to book on Thursday 12 November

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Naples street food tour of the old town with a local guide

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Food · 2.5 hours

Naples street food tour of the old town with a local guide

Old town

Tastings along the way + spritz and limoncello

4.9(6,050)Book

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Royal Naples food tour: 6 tastings and 3 drinks, small group

Small groups

Food · 3 hours

Royal Naples food tour: 6 tastings and 3 drinks, small group

Galleria Umberto I · up to 12 people

6 tastings + 3 drinks

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Naples food tour in the old town from Piazza Bellini, with spritz

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Food · 2.5 hours

Naples food tour in the old town from Piazza Bellini, with spritz

Piazza Bellini

Tastings + spritz

4.9(1,647)Book

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Naples street food tour: mozzarella, pizza fritta and limoncello

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Food · 2.5 hours

Naples street food tour: mozzarella, pizza fritta and limoncello

Piazza Bellini · up to 15 people

Tastings at every stop

4.8(450)Book

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Wine, babà and murals: Sanità food tour from Porta San Gennaro

With tasting

Food · 2.5 hours

Wine, babà and murals: Sanità food tour from Porta San Gennaro

Porta San Gennaro

Pizza, mozzarella, sfogliatella + wine and limoncello

4.8(244)Book

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Naples street food walking tour: four stops that make a full meal

Small groups

Food · 3 hours

Naples street food walking tour: four stops that make a full meal

Piazza Dante · up to 12 people

At least 4 stops + one drink

4.8(379)Book

from€65per person