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Torre del Greco

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Torre del Greco

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Italian comune

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Torre del Greco is a municipality in Italy, located in the Campania region near Naples. It has historically been significant as a center for coral and cameo craftsmanship, making it an important hub for these traditional artisan industries.

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Encyclopedic overview

Torre del Greco ( Italian: [ˈtorre del ˈɡrɛːko]; Neapolitan: Torre d' 'o Grieco; "Greek man's Tower") is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 as of 2016. The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torre del Greco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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