Via Toledo is Naples' shopping and strolling street: 1.2 pedestrian kilometres linking Piazza Trieste e Trento to the upper Toledo district. Its southern end, next to Galleria Umberto I, is 750 metres from the B&B: a 10-minute walk past Maschio Angioino and the Teatro di San Carlo.
Opened by viceroy don Pedro de Toledo in 1536, today it mixes flagship stores, historic cafés and noble palaces. On its western side run the alleys of the Spanish Quarters, with their trattorias, street art — including the famous Maradona mural on Via Emanuele De Deo — and the most authentic side of Naples.
Our tips
- Stop at the Toledo metro station even just for Bob Wilson's blue mosaic: it sits 40 metres underground and is worth the ticket.
- For sfogliatella pastry, Neapolitans queue at Pintauro, on Via Toledo since 1785.
- The evening stroll along Toledo is a local ritual — and the walk back to the harbour is all downhill.
