Four-faced arch
Four-faced arch is an archaeological site in Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Four-faced arch is situated nearby to the ruins statue base, as well as near the archaeological site College of the Augustales.Photo: MiguelHermoso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient entrance arch to the Augusteum, Roman public building in Herculaneum, Naples
- Also known as: “Arco Quadrifonte” and “four-faced arch”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Herculaneum and College of the Augustales.
Herculaneum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
College of the Augustales
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
College of the Augustales is an archaeological site.
Villa of the Papyri
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 of the Papyri is situated 270 metres west of Four-faced arch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ercolano and Portici.
Ercolano
Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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 2½ km southeast of Four-faced arch.
Four-faced arch
- Categories: arch, ruins, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.80672° or 40° 48′ 24″ northLongitude
14.3481° or 14° 20′ 53″ eastOpen location code
8FGPR84X+M6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1361947853OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q29906018
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In Other Languages
“Four-faced arch” goes by many names.
- Italian: “arco Quadrifonte”
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Highlights include statue base and House of the Tuscan Colonnade.
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