Portici
Portici is a locality in Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Portici is situated nearby to the locality San Giorgio a Cremano, as well as near the town Ercolano.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Herculaneum and Villa of the Papyri.
Herculaneum
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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.
National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa
Museum
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.
The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa is close to the Naples–Portici railway. The museum is housed in what was originally the 'Bourbon works' Officine di Pietrarsa, founded in 1840 on the orders of Ferdinand II of Bourbon to build steam engines for ships and boilers for locomotives.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torre del Greco and Ercolano.
Torre del Greco
Town
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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. Torre del Greco is situated 4 km southeast of Portici.
Ercolano
Town
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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
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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
- Type: Locality with 54,000 residents
- Also known as: “063059”
- Location: Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.8189° or 40° 49′ 8″ northLongitude
14.3404° or 14° 20′ 26″ eastPopulation
54,000Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)Open location code
8FGPR89R+H5GeoNames ID
6538768
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In Other Languages
“Portici” goes by many names.
- Italian: “Comune di Portici”
- Italian: “Portici”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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