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Ercolano

Ercolano

Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, of . It lies at the western foot of , on the Bay of Naples, just southeast of the city of Naples.
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  • Type: Town with 53,700 residents
  • Description: comune in Campania, Italy
  • Also known as: “Resina” and “Resìna”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herculaneum and Villa of the Papyri.

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is a town close to in , . It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed .

Archaeological site
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The was an ancient Roman villa in , in what is now Ercolano, southern . It is named after its unique library of papyri scrolls, discovered in 1750.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Torre del Greco and Portici.

Town
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is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in , 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.

Town
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is a town and municipality of the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of in . It has 51,351 inhabitants.

Town
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is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of . It is located on the foothills of to the west of the volcano and the , and is five kilometres to the south east of the centre of . is situated 3½ km northwest of Ercolano.

Ercolano

Latitude
40.8063° or 40° 48′ 23″ north
Longitude
14.3609° or 14° 21′ 39″ east
Population
53,700
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT ERC
Open location code
8FGPR946+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68581056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3177363
Wiki­data ID
Q72111
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ercolano” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إركولانو”
  • Aragonese: “Ercolano”
  • Armenian: “Էրկոլանո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Erkolano”
  • Basque: “Ercolano”
  • Bavarian: “Ercolano”
  • Belarusian: “Эркалана”
  • Bengali: “এরকোলানো”
  • Breton: “Ercolano”
  • Bulgarian: “Ерколано”
  • Bulgarian: “Еркулано”
  • Catalan: “Ercolano”
  • Cebuano: “Ercolano”
  • Chechen: “Эрколано”
  • Chinese: “Ercolano”
  • Chinese: “埃爾科拉諾”
  • Czech: “Ercolano”
  • Danish: “Ercolano”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ercolano”
  • Dutch: “Ercolano”
  • Esperanto: “Ercolano”
  • Finnish: “Ercolano”
  • French: “Ercolano”
  • German: “Ercolano”
  • Greek: “Ερκολάνο”
  • Hebrew: “ארקולנו”
  • Hungarian: “Ercolano”
  • Indonesian: “Ercolano”
  • Interlingua: “Ercolano”
  • Irish: “Ercolano”
  • Italian: “Ercolano”
  • Italian: “Resìna”
  • Japanese: “エルコラーノ”
  • Kazakh: “Эрколано”
  • Korean: “에르콜라노”
  • Kotava: “Ercolano”
  • Kurdish: “Ercolano”
  • Kurdish: “Portici”
  • Ladin: “Ercolano”
  • Latin: “Herculaneum”
  • Latin: “Risina”
  • Latvian: “Erkolano”
  • Latvian: “Erkolāno”
  • Lithuanian: “Erkolanas”
  • Lombard: “Ercolano”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ercolano”
  • Macedonian: “Ерколано”
  • Malay: “Ercolano”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ercolano”
  • Neapolitan: “Ercolano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ercolano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ercolano”
  • Norwegian: “Ercolano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ercolano”
  • Persian: “ارکولانو”
  • Piemontese: “Ercolano”
  • Polish: “Ercolano”
  • Portuguese: “Ercolano”
  • Romanian: “Ercolano”
  • Russian: “Геркуланум”
  • Russian: “Эрколано”
  • Sanskrit: “एर्कोलानो”
  • Scots: “Ercolano”
  • Serbian: “Ерколано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ercolano, Napoli”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ercolano”
  • Sicilian: “Erculanu”
  • Slovenian: “Ercolano”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ارکولانو”
  • Spanish: “Ercolano”
  • Swahili: “Ercolano”
  • Swedish: “Ercolano”
  • Tagalog: “Ercolano”
  • Tatar: “Эрколано”
  • Turkish: “Ercolano”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерколано”
  • Uzbek: “Ercolano”
  • Venetian: “Ercolano”
  • Vietnamese: “Ercolano”
  • Volapük: “Ercolano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ercolano”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃尔科拉诺”
  • “Ercolano”

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