Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Newspapers & Magazines
Major
national Italian news dailies
Corriere della
Sera
and
La Repubblica
have special
cronaca
sections for individual cities with
local listings of events.
Qui Napoli,
a free
magazine issued by the Naples Tourist
board, has the most comprehensive list-
ings in both English and Italian.
Le
Pagine dell'Ozio
is a monthly guide to
events and a comprehensive listing of
bars, restaurants, and nightlife options.
Pharmacies
Pharmacies stagger their
nighttime and Saturday hours. A list of
pharmacies (with addresses) that are
open at given times is posted beside all
pharmacy doors.
Post Office
Naples's main post office is
at
Palazzo Centrale della Posta,
Piazza
Matteotti (Toledo;
%
081-5511456),
open weekdays until 7pm, Saturday in the
morning only.
Restrooms
The best bet for a safe, clean
toilet in Naples is at a coffee bar or a
department store on the Via Toledo.
Restrooms at major sights (not churches)
generally have an attendant who will
charge about
€
.50 for the service, and
sometimes for the toilet paper.
Safety
Even though it has a bad reputa-
tion, Naples is a relatively safe city.
Pickpockets around the tourist sights are
standard, as in most Italian cities, only
here they seem a little less obvious. There
aren't blatant groups of gypsies, but there
are skilled moped drivers who can grab a
purse strap before you know what hap-
pened. Don't wander through the Spanish
Quarter at night. Don't flash your diamond
necklace around Piazza Garibaldi. Don't
pull out a wad of money in a clip any-
where. Don't go out with anything you
can't afford to lose; most hotels have wall
safes where your passport and valuables
are safer than on your person.
Transit Info
You can get
24-hour traffic
reports
(
%
166664477) at a cost of
€
.60 per minute.
The main website for transportation in
and around Campania is
www.campania
trasporti.it
. Each entity of the public
transportation network has its own contact
information. For
bus service
in Naples,
contact
ANM
(
%
800-639525 toll free;
www.anm.it).
Boat timetables
are pub-
lished daily in the Neapolitan newspaper
Il Mattino.
Water-taxi service
(
%
800-
547500 or 081-8773600; www.taxidelmare.
it) is very expensive: One-way between
Capri and Ischia costs
€
494; round-trip
between Capri and Positano costs
€
832.
