Naples Events - November 2026
⚠️ Current Status
Castel dell'Ovo's interior is not confirmed open. The Comune di Napoli's official page still lists the castle as closed to the public until further notice for renovation work, and gives no reopening date. On 20 September 2026 Mayor Gaetano Manfredi announced that the castle would reopen and stay open, with guided visits by booking while restoration continues in other parts of the complex; as of 30 September 2026 no booking channel had been published. Check our opening hours and current access status page, or telephone the castle on 081 7953581, before planning a trip around going inside.
Castel dell'Ovo is closed to the public for now - the note above is the current position, and nothing on this page depends on getting inside. What follows is what is actually dated in Naples this month: ten events and exhibitions you can go to, each taken from the organiser's own page, grouped by what you feel like doing and with the soonest thing first in each group. Everything is in the centre or on the seafront, apart from the Corot, which is up the hill at Capodimonte. 24-26 November is genuinely empty: nothing we could source happens on those three days, so we have said so rather than padded the page.
🎭 WATCH & LISTEN
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral"
📅 Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November 2026 at 19:00 both evenings; about 75 minutes, no interval
Beethoven's Ninth in the 1737 Bourbon theatre, with the orchestra and chorus of the San Carlo under Daniel Oren.
🎻 Performers: Daniel Oren conducting; Louise Alder, Ekaterine Buachidze, Stefan Pop, Michele Pertusi; chorus master Fabrizio Cassi
📍 Location: Teatro di San Carlo, Via San Carlo 98/f, 80132 Napoli
🌐 Organiser: Teatro di San Carlo
Sprint Caracciolo - Tri Gold Caracciolo (III edition)
📅 Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 November 2026
Open-water swimming in the bay with the castle as the backdrop: a sprint triathlon (750 m swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run) and an aquathlon over the same closed lungomare.
📍 Location: Rotonda Diaz and Mappatella beach, Lungomare Caracciolo, Naples
🌐 Organiser: EMMEVI / FITRI
Maggio della Musica at the Museo Darwin-Dohrn
📅 Sunday 15 November 2026, 11:00 - Maggio del Pianoforte: Paolo Salvi, piano (Schumann, Brahms, Dallapiccola)
📅 Sunday 22 November 2026, 11:00 - Maggio del Pianoforte: Giovanni Pierotti, piano (Chopin, Brahms, Ravel, Stravinsky)
📅 Sunday 29 November 2026, 11:00 - Futuro Remoto: Luca Luciano, clarinet, and Ivano Leva, piano (Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Puccini, Poulenc)
Eleven o'clock on a Sunday morning inside the marine-biology museum at the end of the Villa Comunale - an hour of piano on the seafront.
📍 Location: Museo Darwin-Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Associazione Musicale Maggio della Musica
Massimo Ranieri - "Tutti i sogni ancora in volo... e continuano a volare"
📅 Saturday 21 - Monday 23 November 2026; 21:00 on Saturday 21 November and 18:00 on Sunday 22 November
The Politeama opens its 2026/27 season with Ranieri's own musical, written with Edoardo Falcone: the repertory, the sketches and the stories.
🎟️ Price: from €35
📍 Location: Teatro Politeama, Via Monte di Dio 80, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Teatro Politeama
Napoli Racing Show - Gran Premio di Napoli, III edition
📅 Friday 27 November: village opens 10:00, official ceremony 12:00, then free practice, test drives and drifting 12:00-20:00. No races on the Friday.
📅 Saturday 28 November: 09:00-18:30 - official practice, qualifying, eliminators and quarter-finals.
📅 Sunday 29 November: racing from 09:00; Superpole 11:00; the Gran Premio delle Personalità 12:00; Motor Show 14:00; the final at 17:00, prize-giving 18:00.
For three days the seafront in front of the castle becomes a race track - GT and historic cars, supercars and karting on a street circuit, with the village free to walk through.
🎟️ Price: Village entry free. Grandstand sold by session: Saturday €15 (morning or afternoon), Sunday €20 (morning or afternoon); €10 per session for ages 6-13; under 6 free but must be registered by e-mail to napoliracingshow@gmail.com in advance, with a copy of the adult's ticket, and accompanied by that adult.
📍 Location: Street circuit on the Lungomare Caracciolo; grandstand at Rotonda Diaz, Naples
🌐 Organiser: A.S.D. Napoli Racing Show
🍷 EAT & DRINK
Vini & Oli della Magna Grecia (2nd edition) and the Gran Premio del Gusto (1st edition)
📅 Friday 27 - Sunday 29 November 2026
The lungomare's own wine-and-oil village, with the first Gran Premio del Gusto running alongside it: nine tasting challenges over three days, and 70% of each verdict in the hands of the public.
🎟️ Price: Village entry free; tastings are booked in advance
📍 Location: Villaggio Vini e Oli, Rotonda Diaz, Lungomare Caracciolo, Naples
🌐 Organiser: A.S.D. Napoli Racing Show, with the Comune di Napoli and the Associazione Italiana Sommelier, under the patronage of the Regione Campania agriculture department. vinisud.it
🏛️ LEARN & DO
"Il Sabato dei depositi" - guided visits to the furniture and painting stores
📅 Saturday 14 November 2026 (this month only, moved forward from the third Saturday); departures at 10:00 and 11:30; 90 minutes
The Bourbon palace's storerooms, opened to twenty-five people at a time - furniture and paintings normally kept out of the visit route.
🎟️ Price: €5 for the visit alone, or €18 including admission to the palace; maximum 25 people, booking required
📍 Location: Palazzo Reale, meeting point in the Cortile d'Onore at the Fontana della Fortuna, Piazza del Plebiscito 1, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Palazzo Reale di Napoli
"Arte e Resistenza a Napoli. Il percorso creativo di Marino Mazzacurati"
📅 until Saturday 14 November 2026; Monday to Friday 11:00-17:00; closed public holidays and pre-holidays
The plaster and bronze studies for the Monument to the Four Days, with drawings and Parisio-Troncone photographs of the Neapolitan Resistance, in the foundation's own rooms inside the Maschio Angioino.
📍 Location: Fondazione Valenzi, Sala Litza Cittanova Valenzi, Maschio Angioino (Castel Nuovo), Piazza Municipio, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Fondazione Valenzi
Crochet Coral Reef - Margaret and Christine Wertheim and Museum Frieder Burda
📅 12 October 2026 - 12 April 2027; 09:30-17:00, last entry 16:00, closed Tuesdays
A wool reef built by more than four thousand pairs of hands - the largest crocheted reef ever made, with two of its six islands on show in the Casa della Fotografia at Villa Pignatelli.
📍 Location: Casa della Fotografia, Villa Pignatelli, Riviera di Chiaia 200, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Palazzo Reale di Napoli / Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, "La baia di Napoli con Castel dell'Ovo" (1828)
📅 on display since Thursday 8 October 2026
The castle you are standing in front of, painted at first light in 1828 - oil on paper, 34.2 x 60 cm, and the first Corot in the museum's 19th-century collection.
🎟️ Price: included in museum admission
📍 Location: Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, room 78, second floor, Via Miano 2, Naples
🌐 Organiser: Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
🛍️ BUY & BROWSE
Empty on purpose. No market or fair in Naples this November has a date we can trace to the organiser's own publication, and an empty section beats one padded with a listing we cannot stand behind.