Ercolano
Ercolano is a locality in Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Ercolano is situated nearby to the town Torre del Greco, as well as near Portici.| 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.
Suburban Baths
Archaeological site
Photo: Mboesch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Suburban Baths is an archaeological site.
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.
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
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.
Ercolano
- Type: Locality with 52,400 residents
- Also known as: “063064”
- Location: Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.8063° or 40° 48′ 23″ northLongitude
14.3609° or 14° 21′ 39″ eastPopulation
52,400Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)Open location code
8FGPR946+G9GeoNames ID
6541165
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In Other Languages
“Ercolano” goes by many names.
- Italian: “Comune di Ercolano”
- Italian: “Ercolano”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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