Naples · Nightlife

The centre of the student night: bars around a sunken stretch of Greek city wall, everyone drinking outside, cheap and busy from ten.

Smarter, older money, cocktail bars around Via Chiaia and the lanes off it, with dinner before rather than after.

One narrow lane, a dozen bars, and a crowd that spills the full length of it on Friday and Saturday.

Traffic-free seafront from Mergellina to Castel dell'Ovo, lined with bars and full of people walking until well past midnight.

The grid of alleys above Via Toledo, once a no-go area and now full of small restaurants and bars. Busy is safe here; empty at 2am is not.