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Encyclopedia Britannica



TORRE DEL GRECO

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 60 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TORRE DEL GRECO , a seaport of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples, 71 M. S.E. of that city by
rail
 . Pop. (1961), 35,328. It lies at the
south
 -west foot of
Vesuvius
 , on the shore of the Bay of Naples. It is built chiefly of lava, and stands on the lava stream of 1631, which destroyed two-thirds of the older town.
Great
  damage was done by the eruptions of 1737 and 1794; the
earthquake
  of 1857 and the eruption of the 8th of December 1861 were even more destructive. After each dis, aster the
people
  returned, the advantage of the
rich
  volcanic land overcoming apprehensions of danger. In the outskirts are many beautiful villas and gardens. The town has shipbuilding yards and lava quarries. The inhabitants take
part
  in the coral and sponge fishing off the
African
  and Sicilian coasts, and coral is worked in the town. There is also fishing for tunny, sardines and oysters; hemp is
woven
 , and the neighbourhood is famed for its fruit and wine. In June the
great
  popular festival " Dei Quattro Altari " is annually celebrated here in commemoration of the abolition of the feudal dominion in 1700. Remains of ancient villas and baths have been found here.


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