Oplontis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Oplontis was a town near Pompeii, Italy. On August 24, 79, when Vesuvius erupted and buried it under a layer of ash. It is today the location of the Villa Poppaea, the villa of the wife of the Emperor Nero, which was excavated in the middle of the twentieth century and is open to the public

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

 This Campanian location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


Coordinates: 40°45′N 14°27′E

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../o/p/l/Oplontis.html"
In other languages