Boschetto residenziale

Boschetto residenziale is a forest in Torre del Greco, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Boschetto residenziale is situated nearby to the town Torre del Greco, as well as near the village Sant’Antonio.

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.

Villa Favorita

Public building

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Villa Favorita, also known as Real Villa della Favorita, was a royal rural palace in Ercolano, Italy.

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.