Portici
Americannoun
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Somehow he managed to get Charles, Ferdinand’s father, to appoint him “keeper” of the royal museum at Portici, where the sculptures and the scrolls were kept.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
Our horses and donkeys were waiting for us where we had left them; and we rode rapidly back via the Hermitage, but over the plain of lava, instead of by the zig-zag road, toward Portici.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
On August 25, the performance, at the Brussels Opera House, of Auber's "La Muette di Portici," with its representation of a revolutionary rising in Naples, gave the signal for revolt.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
HERCULANEUM, an ancient city of Italy, situated about two-thirds of a mile from the Portici station of the railway from Naples to Pompeii.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Portici, Torre del Greco, Torre dell’Annunziata, and others all blend with each other and with Naples.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
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