Two volcanic cities, two street-food capitals, two completely different islands of chaos.
Plan your trip →Naples: 3 million metro, massive, intense, overwhelming. The most alive city in Italy. Catania: 300,000, smaller, Sicilian, built on black lava. Same energy, different scale.
Naples: pizza a portafoglio €1, frittatina €2. Catania: arancini €2.50, granita+brioche €4. Both outstanding. Naples is cheaper; Catania is more unique (the granita breakfast).
Naples: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri, Amalfi Coast. Catania: Etna, Taormina, Syracuse. Both are extraordinary base cities.
Naples: bigger experience, more chaos, pizza, Amalfi gateway. Catania: smaller, more manageable, Etna+Syracuse+Taormina gateway. Do both on a Naples–Sicily route.
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