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
Boar-hunts of course, to represent how Neapolitan kings kill boars at Portici, and shoot wild-ducks on the Lago di Fusina.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
The great, level, simple garden from Portici to Naples--a garden web of villages, groves, and country-houses, washed by waves--carried his eye over blossoms to his paradise in the sea.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Just before the eruption of 1767, a vapour of this kind broke into the King's chapel at Portici, by which a servant, opening the door of it, was struck down.
From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by William Hamilton
Will it be Portici, or either of the Torres?
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
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