Naples ’44

Place · Town

Torre del Greco

Torre del Greco is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in southern Italy. It has 78,839 inhabitants.

In the book

One of the coastal towns south of Naples fused into a single grim suburb; historically overwhelmed by Vesuvius’s lava, it is again a focus of concern during the 1944 eruption.

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Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. March 24 1944
    With the eruption subsiding, Lewis meets Del Giudice, an eccentric folklore writer and expert on San Gennaro and Vesuvius.

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