Campania Artecard: is it worth it? The sums for the Napoli 3-day, Campania 3-day and 7-day passes

💡 The Short Version: The Napoli Artecard is €27 for 3 days, with 3 free entries and the city’s buses, metro and funiculars. It pays when the free entries go on the dear sights: the MANN (€20) plus one of Capodimonte, the Royal Palace or the Treasury (€15) is €35 against €27, even if you walk everywhere. It loses on the booked sights: the Cappella Sansevero and Napoli Sotterranea are not on any pass. The Campania Artecard 3 is €41 with 2 free entries and regional trains, and pays when you add Pompeii or Herculaneum to the MANN. The Campania Artecard 7 is €43 with 5 free entries and no transport. Buy from the issuer; a GetYourGuide voucher for the Napoli pass costs from €28 against the official €27.

The passes

Prices are the issuer’s, adult, from campaniartecard.it. A pass is digital, personal and non-transferable.

• After the free entries, the next entries are reduced, up to 50 per cent. The sums below count them at full price, which can only widen the pass’s lead.
• Activation: manually, at the first Unico turnstile or the first museum ticket office. Activation cannot be cancelled and the timer cannot be paused. The days run to 23:59 on the last day.
• Buy online at campaniartecard.it, in the app, or at the Artecard InfoPoint at Piazza del Gesù 7.
• First Sundays and free days: the pass gives no queue-jump.

Which sights are free entries

• On the Napoli pass: the MANN, MADRE, the Museo Diocesano, Capodimonte, Castel Nuovo, the Royal Palace, the Museo Duca di Martina, Castel Sant’Elmo, the Certosa e Museo di San Martino, the Gallerie d’Italia, Sant’Anna dei Lombardi and the Treasury of San Gennaro, among others.
• The Campania passes add: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, Boscoreale, the Campi Flegrei sites, the Royal Palace of Caserta, Paestum and Velia, Padula, Ravello’s Villa Rufolo and Benevento. The 7-day list also names the Pio Monte della Misericordia.
• Reduced only, never free: San Lorenzo Maggiore (€7), the Catacombs of Naples (€9), the Galleria Borbonica, the Gaiola park and Pausilypon.
• Not on the pass at all: Santa Chiara, which has not accepted the passes since 1 August 2023, the Cappella Sansevero and Napoli Sotterranea.
• The Campi Flegrei sites need a free Artecard booking through the Musei Italiani app.

Castel Nuovo, a free entry on the Napoli Artecard. Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The sums

Prices are the operators’ own for 2026, with transport from the Unico tariff valid since 1 October 2026: a 3-day city ticket is €10.80 and a day ticket €5.70, and the Circumvesuviana is €2.60 to Ercolano and €3.30 to Pompei each way.

The rules the sums give:

1. The Napoli Artecard pays when the three free entries go on dear sights. The MANN plus any one of Capodimonte, the Royal Palace or the Treasury (€35) pays even if you walk everywhere, and the MANN alone pays if you also ride on three days (€30.80).
2. It loses when the plan is built on Sansevero, Napoli Sotterranea, the Catacombs and the Galleria Borbonica.
3. The Campania Artecard 3 pays when you add Pompeii or Herculaneum to the MANN and ride the Circumvesuviana. The 7-day pass pays with any three of Pompeii, the MANN, Herculaneum, Capodimonte and the Royal Palace.
4. On the first Sunday of the month state sites are free anyway, so no free entry is worth spending then.
5. One sight only: buy the ticket.

Pompeii with the pass

The Campania passes include the Pompeii Express ticket, which covers the ancient city. The villas, including the Villa of the Mysteries and the Villa of Diomedes, are an extra €8. Pass holders go in by the Piazza Esedra entrance reserved for them and for groups, with no booking, and the park issues a ticket in the holder’s name after an ID check. The park caps entry at 20,000 a day, and last entry is 15:30 from 15 October. Pompeii from Naples has the rest, and Herculaneum accepts the pass too: activate it at the box office.

The colonnade at the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis, a Campania Artecard site. Photo: Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Where to buy

Buy from the issuer, Scabec, at campaniartecard.it. GetYourGuide sells the same pass as a voucher, which you convert into the pass on the Artecard site. Its prices are from-prices.

Other sellers price the same cards far higher: a “3-days pass with Pompeii, museums and transportation” is €99.90 against the Campania Artecard 3’s €41, and a “7 days pass” is €163 against €43. Buy from the issuer.

Naples public transport has the fares the Napoli pass replaces, and what to book before you go to Naples lists the closed days. The big museums have their own pages: the MANN, Capodimonte, the Royal Palace and the Treasury of San Gennaro. Day trips from Naples compares every trip.