The Olympic flame arrives in Naples. Route, streets, and celebrations from December 23rd to 25th.
Napoli is preparing to welcome one of the most anticipated symbolic events on the road to the Winter Games Milan Cortina 2026. La Olympic flame, departing from Olympia and travelling through Italy, will stop in the city from 23 25 to December, transforming Naples into a large open-air stage dedicated to the values of the sportand sharing and medium-high paceThe key day will be that of Tuesday December 23, when the relay will pass through different neighborhoods, ideally uniting the suburbs and the historic center in a single urban story.
Naples at the heart of the Olympic journey
The choice of Naples as the destination of the Olympic flame is no coincidence. The city represents a meeting point of history, popular identity, and international vocation. The arrival of the Olympic flame takes on a powerful symbolic significance, especially since it occurs just before the Christmas holidays, a period when Naples experiences particularly intense collective participation. Piazza del Plebiscito It will be the heart of the celebrations, the arrival point of the city relay and the setting for the official ceremony with the presence of institutions, athletes, and representatives of the cultural world.
The path of the flame through the city
In afternoon of December 23th The Olympic flame will cross Naples following a long and complex route, designed to encompass several urban areas. The relay will start in the northern areas, passing through iconic neighborhoods and major thoroughfares, before heading toward the city center and the waterfront, all the way to the finish line.
The passage of the flame will affect the following streets and squares:
- Avenue of Resistance
- Via Antonio Labriola
- Tancredi Galimberti Street
- Baku Street
- Via Roma towards Scampia
- Secondigliano course
- Piazza Di Vittorio
- Capodichino calata
- Via Arenaccia
- Novara Course
- Piazza Garibaldi
- Mancini Square
- Corso Umberto I
- Piazza Bovio
- Cardinal Guglielmo Sanfelice Street
- Via Monte Oliveto
- Via Sant'Anna dei Lombardi
- Piazza Sette Settembre
- Via Toledo
- Piazza Carità
- Via Cesare Battisti
- Piazza Giacomo Matteotti
- Via Armando Diaz
- Via Medina
- Piazza Municipio
- Via Vittorio Emanuele III
- Via Riccardo Filangieri Candida Gonzaga
- Via Admiral Ferdinando Acton
- Via Nazario Sauro
- Via Cesario Console
The route will end in piazza del Plebiscito, where the final celebratory moment is planned.
The torchbearers and the symbolic faces of the relay
Accompanying the flame along the streets of Naples will be numerous torchbearers, chosen to represent different worlds of sport, culture, and civic engagement. Among the most anticipated names are Pino Maddaloni, Olympic judo champion in Sydney 2000, and Ciro Ferrara, former footballer for Napoli and the Italian national team, with a past also at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Alongside them, there will also be well-known faces from the cultural and artistic scene such as The Jackal, Stash of The Kolors e Raffaella Giugni, general secretary of the environmentalist foundation Marevivo, to underline the link between sport, creativity and attention to the future of the planet.
An event that unites cities and citizens
The passage of the Olympic flame will not only be a sporting event, but a moment of collective participationNaples will have the opportunity to showcase itself as a city capable of embracing and reinterpreting great international symbols, integrating them into its own identity. The Olympic relay thus becomes a story that spans diverse neighborhoods, people, and histories, leaving a powerful symbolic mark on the journey to Milan Cortina 2026.