Torre Annunziata

Torre Annunziata is a city of the Province of Naples in the area Campanie in Italy.

Geography

Torre Annunziata is a seaside resort and thermal (the Terme vesuviane , were already active at the time Roman) located at the foot of the Vesuvius and vis-a-vis the Golfe of Naples

History

Excavations of Oplontis

The Table of Peutinger locates the ancient site of Oplontis on the territory of Torre Annunziata.

Between 1964 and 1984 was put at the day a sumptuous villa of the Roman epoch (Ier century before J. - C.) supposed to have belonged to the Gens Poppea and perhaps to Poppée, the second wife of Néron. More recently another imposing construction, the Villa of Crassus, was discovered and the excavations revealed the presence of jewels worked according to an admirable technique of goldsmithery.

The site of Oplontis, buried under the eruption of the Vesuvius into 79, is included/understood in the archaeological zone of Pompéi, Herculanum and Torre Annunziata registered by UNESCO on the list of the world heritage in 1997.

Economy

Torre Annunziata it was until a recent past the seat of mechanical engineering industries and food with, in the years 1950, several hundreds of factories of pastes of which there remains only one company Pasta Setaro .

It shelters nautical and pharmaceutical industries today.

Personalities

Geography

History

Economy

Culture

Commemorative event

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Administration

Hamlets

Rovigliano

Communes bordering

Boscoreale, Boscotrecase, Castellammare di Stabia, Pompei, Torre del Greco, Trecase

Twinnings

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See too

  • List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

External bonds

  • Oplontis and the Villa of Poppée on the site of the commune of Torre Annunziata {{it}}

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