Torre del Greco

[ tawr-re del gre-kaw ]

noun

1. a city in SW Italy, near Naples.

Torre del Greco

/ ˈtorre del ˈɡrɛːko /

noun

1. a city in SW Italy, in Campania near Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples: damaged several times by eruptions. Pop: 90 607 (2001)

Example Sentences

Did he hide it from the jailers at the time of his incarceration, or did he obtain possession of it on his way to Torre-del-Greco?

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During this eruption Torre del Greco was upraised to the extent of two metres, and nearly all the houses were knocked down.

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The road passes through, or rather over Torre del Greco, a town almost totally destroyed by the eruption in 1794.

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But what most excited public curiosity was the strange incident which had taken place at Torre-del-Greco.

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Is it Torre del Greco that is built above buried Herculaneum?

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