Villa Ruggiero

Villa Ruggiero is a town hall in Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania. Villa Ruggiero is situated nearby to the park Parco del Miglio d’oro, as well as near the community center Forum dei Giovani di Ercolano.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Herculaneum and Villa Favorita.

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 Favorita

Public building

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Villa Favorita, also known as Real Villa della Favorita, was a royal rural palace in Ercolano, Italy. Villa Favorita is situated 210 metres south of Villa Ruggiero.

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 papyrus scrolls, discovered in 1750. Villa of the Papyri is situated 1 km northwest of Villa Ruggiero.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ercolano and Torre del Greco.

Ercolano

Town

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Ercolano is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in southern Italy. It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Gulf of Naples, just southeast of Naples.

Torre del Greco

Town

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Torre del Greco is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in southern Italy. It has 78,839 inhabitants. 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.