Naples ’44

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Torre del Greco

Torre del Greco
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Background

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.

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In Naples ’44

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.

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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