Torre Annunziata

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Comune di Torre Annunziata
Coat of arms of Comune di Torre Annunziata
Municipal coat of arms
Country Italy Italy
Region Campania
Province Naples (NA)
Mayor Luigi Monaco (since April 2004)
Elevation 9 m
Area 7 km²
Population
 - Total (as of December 31, 2004) 48,720
 - Density 6,960/km²
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 40°45′N 14°27′E
Gentilic Oplontini or Torresi
Dialing code 081
Postal code 80058
Frazioni Rovigliano
Patron Madonna of the Snow
 - Day October 22
Website: http://www.comune.torreannunziata.na.it/

Torre Annunziata is a city and commune in the province of Naples, region of Campania in Italy. It is located at the Gulf of Naples at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius. The city was destroyed in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. and in 1631.

It is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997.

[edit] Main sights

On the Tabula Peutingeriana Torre Annunziata is called Oplonti.

In the communal territory has been excavated one of the richest Roman villae (1st century B.C.), probably belonging to the gens Poppeia.

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World Heritage Sites in Italy

Aeolian Islands | Aquileia | Archaeological Area of Agrigento | Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata | Franciscan Sites of Assisi | Botanical Garden, Padua | Caserta Palace and Related Monuments | Castel del Monte | Cilento and Vallo di Diano with Paestum and Velia | Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan | Costiera Amalfitana | Crespi d'Adda | Etruscan Necropoli of Cerveteri and Tarquinia | Ferrara and its Po Delta | Florence | Palaces of Genoa | I Sassi di Matera | Modena: Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande | Sicilian Baroque of Val di Noto | Historic Centre of Naples | Piazza del Duomo, Pisa | Pienza | Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Tino | Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna | Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Rock Drawings in Valcamonica | Rome (w/ Holy See) | Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy | San Gimignano | Siena | Su Nuraxi di Barumini | Syracuse with Pantalica | Trulli of Alberobello | Urbino | Val d'Orcia | Venice and its Lagoon | Verona | Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto | Villa Adriana (Tivoli) | Villa d'Este, Tivoli | Villa Romana del Casale


Campania · Communes of the province of Napoli

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