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Torre Annunziata

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Torre Annunziata

Seaport and resort in Campania region, southern Italy, on the Bay of Naples, 20 km/12 mi southeast of Naples; population (1991) 52,900. Torre Annunziata is at the centre of the Neapolitan spaghetti and macaroni industry, and there are fisheries and a steel-tube works. It has been buried several times beneath the lava of Mount Vesuvius; there is a Roman villa, thought to have belonged to the emperor Nero's wife, Poppea.



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In the town of Torre Annunziata there are the excavations of Oplontis, a probable peripheral area of Pompeii, not an autonomous town.
 
 
 
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