Maschio Angioino – Castel Nuovo

A bit dreary on a rainy day in Napoli, but it’s not too expensive (~5 euros) and you can get some great views from the battlements if you keep going up the stairs.
There’s some art inside, and an optional tour, but I had more fun looking out to sea.

Originally I had planned to come here over the Castel del’Ovo. But this seemed to be more underwhelming and the Castel del’Ovo was closed for some international conference and we weren’t allowed in. Sadface.
It is kind of difficult to get to just because of the sheer amount of construction going on in the area. But it does cost 5 Euros per person to gain entry. And there is a tour (that we didn’t find out about until later on because the guy at the ticket office didn’t tell us).
This was cool in the sense that it had a lot of history and the architecture was cool. The art museum located within the castle was pretty underwhelming and boring. Note that this is coming from an art fiend.
But the Hall of the Barons was nice, it had an interesting spider-​like dome. And I found out from the tour guide that it used to house government council or parliamentary meetings. So it was filled with benches and had an Italian flag.
The Chapel of Santa Barbara was my favorite part of the castle. I loved looking at the frescos, but it’s just too bad that pretty much all of them were damaged by the earthquakes so they’d fallen off in sheets and pieces.
We ended up accidentally bumping into the tour guide, I guess we looked lost and he asked us if we knew about the free tour and we didn’t so, he told us to tag along and we ended up getting access to other areas of the castle that we wouldn’t have known about otherwise. So take the tour! You paid for it! :)
The tour took us above the Hall of Barons and we got to walk around the dome. And we got to see some behind-​the-​scenes staircases built by the Spanish. They were super windy and narrow, it was pretty cool. And we ended the tour on the roof of the castle where we could take pictures of the city of Naples and parts of the Bay.
Our tour guide was cool, just make sure you find information about the tour. He spoke English which was nice, I think he actually spoke the best out of the many Italians we encountered in Italy, so it does help to know some Italian! He actually was leading a tour of Italians, but after we started tagging along he was kind enough to add a bit of English time to the tour.
Originally was going to give the castle 3 stars, but +1 star for the cool tour guide.

Sehr beeindruckende Burg am Hafen. Die riesige Anlage ist auch vom Wasser aus unübersehbar. Im Inneren ist ein Museum.