Secondigliano

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Secondigliano is a north-eastern suburb of Naples between San Pietro a Patierno (the area containing the Capodichino airport) and Scampia. The area was a feudal holding in the Middle Ages and not incorporated into the city of Naples until the Fascist period. The name may derive from a contraction of "secondo" (second) and "miglio" (mile) since the area was at the second milestone on the old road to Capua. Alternately, the name may derive from the Roman family name "Secondili."

Secondigliano is relatively modern, the result of extensive building in the 1970s and 1980s, yet has enormous social problems similar to those in adjacent communities: high unemployment, high scholastic absenteeism and drop-out rate, drugs and the pervasiveness of organized crime, the Camorra. Secondigliano is the site of one of the most important maximum security prisons in Italy.