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Ercolano

Herculaneum

Herculaneum is a town close to in , . It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed .
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  • Opening hours:
    8:30 AM—3:30 PM
    December 25th: closed
    January 1st: closed
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: Roman town
  • Also known as: “Scavi di Ercolano”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest

Highlights include Villa of the Papyri and Suburban Baths.

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

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Torre del Greco and Ercolano.

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 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.

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.

Herculaneum

Latitude
40.8054° or 40° 48′ 19″ north
Longitude
14.3472° or 14° 20′ 50″ east
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Operator
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia
Open location code
8FGPR84W+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 351900172
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
3177364
Wiki­data ID
Q178813
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Herculaneum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Herculaneum”
  • Arabic: “هركولانيوم”
  • Armenian: “Հերկուլանում”
  • Balinese: “Hérculanéum”
  • Basque: “Herkulano”
  • Belarusian: “Геркуланум”
  • Bengali: “হেরকুলেনিয়াম”
  • Bulgarian: “Херкулан”
  • Bulgarian: “Херкуланеум”
  • Catalan: “Herculà”
  • Catalan: “Herculaneum”
  • Chinese: “赫库兰尼姆古城”
  • Croatian: “Herculaneum”
  • Croatian: “Herkulanej”
  • Czech: “Herculaneum”
  • Danish: “Herculaneum”
  • Dutch: “Herculaneum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هركولانيوم”
  • Esperanto: “Herculaneum”
  • Esperanto: “Herkulaneum”
  • Esperanto: “Herkulano”
  • Estonian: “Herculaneum”
  • Finnish: “Herculaneum”
  • French: “Herculaneum”
  • French: “Herculanum”
  • Galician: “Herculano”
  • Georgian: “ჰერკულანუმი”
  • German: “Herculaneum”
  • German: “Herkulaneum”
  • German: “Herkulanum”
  • Greek: “Herculaneum”
  • Greek: “Ερκολάνο”
  • Greek: “Ερκουλάνεουμ”
  • Greek: “Ηράκλεια”
  • Greek: “Ηράκλειον”
  • Hebrew: “הרקולנאום”
  • Hebrew: “הרקולניאום”
  • Hindi: “हरक्यूलेनियम”
  • Hungarian: “Herculaneum”
  • Icelandic: “Herculaneum”
  • Indonesian: “Herculaneum”
  • Italian: “Ercolano”
  • Italian: “scavi archeologici di Ercolano”
  • Italian: “Scavi archeologici di Ercolano”
  • Italian: “scavi di Ercolano”
  • Japanese: “ヘルクラネウム”
  • Kazakh: “Геркуланум”
  • Korean: “헤르쿨라네움”
  • Latin: “Herculaneum”
  • Latin: “Herculāneum”
  • Latvian: “Herkulāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Herkulanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Herkulanėjas”
  • Lithuanian: “Herkulaniumas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Herculaneum”
  • Macedonian: “Херкуланеум”
  • Malay: “Herculaneum”
  • Marathi: “हर्क्युलेनियम”
  • Neapolitan: “Ercolano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herculanem”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herculaneum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herculaneum”
  • Norwegian: “Herculaneum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Herculanum”
  • Persian: “هرکولانوم”
  • Persian: “هرکولانیوم”
  • Polish: “Herculanum”
  • Polish: “Herkulaneum”
  • Polish: “Herkulanum”
  • Portuguese: “Herculaneum”
  • Portuguese: “Herculano”
  • Romanian: “Herculaneum”
  • Russian: “Геркулан”
  • Russian: “Геркуланум”
  • Sardinian: “Ercolanu”
  • Scots: “Herculaneum”
  • Serbian: “Херкуланеум”
  • Serbian: “Херкуланум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herculaneum”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herkulanej”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herkulaneum”
  • Slovak: “Herculaneum”
  • Slovak: “Herkulaneum”
  • Slovak: “Herkulanum”
  • Slovenian: “Ercolano”
  • Slovenian: “Herculaneum”
  • Slovenian: “Herculanum”
  • Slovenian: “Herkulanej”
  • Slovenian: “Herkulaneum”
  • Slovenian: “Herkulanum”
  • Spanish: “Ercolano”
  • Spanish: “Herculano”
  • Swedish: “Herculaneum”
  • Tagalog: “Herculano”
  • Tajik: “Gerkulanum”
  • Tajik: “Геркуланум”
  • Tamil: “ஹெர்குலியம்”
  • Thai: “Herculaneum”
  • Thai: “เฮอร์คิวเลเนียม”
  • Turkish: “Herculaneum”
  • Turkish: “Herkulaneum”
  • Ukrainian: “Геркуланум”
  • Uzbek: “Gerkulanum”
  • Vietnamese: “Herculaneum”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Herculaneum”
  • Welsh: “Herculaneum”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫库兰尼姆古城”

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