Portici

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Portici
coat of arms
Portici (Italy)
Portici
Country Italy
region Campania
Metropolitan city Naples  (NA)
Local name Puortece
Coordinates 40 ° 49 '  N , 14 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 49 '11 "  N , 14 ° 20' 28"  E
height 29  m slm
surface 4 km²
Residents 53,724 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 13,431 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 80055, 80052
prefix 081
ISTAT number 063059
Popular name Porticesi
Patron saint San Ciro
Website Portici

Portici is a city with 53,724 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the southern Italian Campania , metropolitan city of Naples . It is located 12 kilometers from Naples at the foot of Mount Vesuvius on the bay of the same name. Portici is the most densely populated municipality in all of Italy.

In 1738 the Bourbon King Charles VII had a palace ( Reggia di Portici or Palazzo Reale ) built. In this, among other things, various representative excavation finds from Herculaneum and Pompeii were collected in the following decades until they were brought to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. Today the palace houses the Botanical Institute of the University of Naples. The castle park is a botanical garden ( Orto Botanico della Reggia ). In 1839 Italy's first railway line was opened between Naples and Portici . The city is a center of the silk industry in Italy.

The name of the city is also known from Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's opera La muette de Portici ( The Mute of Portici ).

  • The pier at Portici, 1818 by Josef Rebell

  • Entry of the first railway

  • Reggia di Portici

  • Staircase in the palace

  • In the palace

  • View to the basilica

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Portici  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.