Torre del Greco
Torre del Greco is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 as of 2016. The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 86,300 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Torre Annunziata
Places of Interest
Highlights include Herculaneum and Villa of the Papyri.
Herculaneum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herculaneum is a town close to Naples in Campania, Italy. It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii.
Villa of the Papyri
Archaeological site
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The Villa of the Papyri was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy. It is named after its unique library of papyri scrolls, discovered in 1750.
Villa Favorita
Public building
Photo: Dommaria, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Favorita, also known as Real Villa della Favorita, was a royal rural palace in Ercolano, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ercolano and Portici.
Ercolano
Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania of Southern Italy. It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Bay of Naples, just southeast of the city of Naples.
Portici
Town
Photo: Ferdinando Scala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portici is a town and municipality of the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in Italy. It has 51,351 inhabitants. Portici is situated 4½ km northwest of Torre del Greco.
San Giorgio a Cremano
Town
Photo: Ferdinando Scala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Giorgio a Cremano is a city in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is located on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius to the west of the volcano and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and is five kilometres to the south east of the centre of Naples. San Giorgio a Cremano is situated 5 km northwest of Torre del Greco.
Torre del Greco
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Torre del Greco, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.7879° or 40° 47′ 17″ northLongitude
14.3683° or 14° 22′ 6″ eastPopulation
86,300Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT TDGOpen location code
8FGPQ9Q9+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 68581423OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Torre del Greco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توري دل غريكو”
- Aragonese: “Torre ‘o Grieco”
- Aragonese: “Torre ’o Grieco”
- Armenian: “Տոռե դել Գրեկո”
- Armenian: “Տորե դել Գրեկո”
- Azerbaijani: “Torre del Qreko”
- Basque: “Torre del Greco”
- Bavarian: “Torre del Greco”
- Belarusian: “Торэ-дэль-Грэка”
- Breton: “Torre del Greco”
- Bulgarian: “Торе дел Греко”
- Catalan: “Torre del Greco”
- Cebuano: “Torre del Greco”
- Chechen: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Chinese: “Torre del Greco”
- Chinese: “托雷-德尔格雷科”
- Chinese: “托雷-德爾格雷科”
- Chinese: “托雷德爾格雷科”
- Czech: “Torre del Greco”
- Danish: “Torre del Greco”
- Dimli (individual language): “Torre del Greco”
- Dutch: “Torre del Greco”
- Esperanto: “Torre del Greco”
- Faroese: “Torre del Greco”
- Finnish: “Torre del Greco”
- French: “Torre del Greco”
- Galician: “Torre del Greco”
- German: “Torre del Greco”
- Greek: “Τόρρε ντελ Γκρέκο”
- Hebrew: “טורה דל גרסו”
- Hungarian: “Torre del Greco”
- Indonesian: “Torre del Greco”
- Interlingua: “Torre del Greco”
- Irish: “Torre del Greco”
- Italian: “Torre del Greco”
- Japanese: “トッレ・デル・グレーコ”
- Kalaallisut: “Torre del Greco”
- Kazakh: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Korean: “토레델그레코”
- Kurdish: “Torre del Greco”
- Ladin: “Torre del Greco”
- Latin: “Turris Octava”
- Latvian: “Torre del Greko”
- Lithuanian: “Tore del Grekas”
- Lombard: “Torre del Greco”
- Luxembourgish: “Torre del Greco”
- Malay: “Torre del Greco”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Torre del Greco”
- Neapolitan: “Torre d’’o Grieco”
- Neapolitan: “Torre d’o Grieco”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torre del Greco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torre del Greco”
- Norwegian: “Torre del Greco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torre del Greco”
- Ossetian: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Persian: “توره دل گرکو”
- Piemontese: “Torre del Greco”
- Polish: “Torre del Greco”
- Portuguese: “Torre del Greco”
- Quechua: “Torre del Greco”
- Romanian: “Torre del Greco”
- Russian: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Sanskrit: “टोर्रे देल ग्रेको”
- Scots: “Torre del Greco”
- Serbian: “Торе дел Греко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torre del Greco, Napoli”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torre del Greco”
- Sicilian: “Turri dû Grecu”
- Slovenian: “Torre del Greco”
- South Azerbaijani: “توره دل گرکو”
- Spanish: “Torre del Greco”
- Swahili: “Torre del Greco”
- Swedish: “Torre del Greco”
- Tagalog: “Torre del Greco”
- Tatar: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Turkish: “Torre del Greco”
- Ukrainian: “Торре-дель-Греко”
- Uzbek: “Torre del Greco”
- Uzbek: “Торре дел Греcо”
- Venetian: “Torre del Greco”
- Vietnamese: “Torre del Greco”
- Volapük: “Torre del Greco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torre del Greco”
- Wu Chinese: “托雷德尔格雷科”
- “Torre d’u Greche”
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