Herculaneum
Herculaneum is a town close to Naples in Campania, Italy. It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
8:30 AM—3:30 PM
25th December: closed
1st January: closed - Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Roman town
- Wheelchair access: limited
Notable Places in the Area
Villa of the Papyri
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Villa of the Papyri was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy.
College of the Augustales
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
College of the Augustales is an archaeological site.
Localities in the Area
Torre del Greco
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torre del Greco is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c.
Ercolano
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania of Southern Italy.
Portici
Photo: Ferdinando Scala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portici is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy.
Herculaneum
- Categories: ancient city, museum, historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.8054° or 40° 48' 19" northLongitude
14.3472° or 14° 20' 50" eastElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Operator
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Pompei, Ercolano e StabiaOpen Location Code
8FGPR84W+4VOpenStreetMap ID
way 351900172OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap Attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
3177364Wikidata ID
Q178813Herculaneum Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Herculaneum
- Arabic: Herculaneum
- Arabic: هركولانيوم
- Armenian: Հերկուլանում
- Balinese: Hérculanéum
- Basque: Herkulano
- Belarusian: Геркуланум
- Bengali: হেরকুলেনিয়াম
- Bulgarian: Херкулан
- Bulgarian: Херкуланеум
- Catalan: Herculaneum
- Catalan: Herculà
- Chinese: 赫库兰尼姆古城
- Croatian: Herculaneum
- Croatian: Herkulanej
- Czech: Herculaneum
- Danish: Herculaneum
- Dutch: Herculaneum
- Egyptian Arabic: هركولانيوم
- Esperanto: Herculaneum
- Esperanto: Herkulaneum
- Esperanto: Herkulano
- Estonian: Herculaneum
- Finnish: Herculaneum
- French: Herculaneum
- French: Herculanum
- Galician: Herculano
- Georgian: ჰერკულანუმი
- German: Herculaneum
- German: Herkulaneum
- German: Herkulanum
- Greek: Herculaneum
- Greek: Ερκολάνο
- Greek: Ερκουλάνεουμ
- Greek: Ηράκλεια
- Greek: Ηράκλειον
- Hebrew: הרקולנאום
- Hebrew: הרקולניאום
- Hindi: हरक्यूलेनियम
- Hungarian: Herculaneum
- Icelandic: Herculaneum
- Indonesian: Herculaneum
- Italian: Ercolano
- Italian: Scavi archeologici di Ercolano
- Italian: scavi archeologici di Ercolano
- Italian: scavi di Ercolano
- Japanese: ヘルクラネウム
- Kazakh: Геркуланум
- Korean: 헤르쿨라네움
- Latin: Herculaneum
- Latin: Herculāneum
- Latvian: Herkulāna
- Lithuanian: Herkulanas
- Lithuanian: Herkulaniumas
- Lithuanian: Herkulanėjas
- Luxembourgish: Herculaneum
- Macedonian: Херкуланеум
- Malay: Herculaneum
- Marathi: हर्क्युलेनियम
- Neapolitan: Ercolano
- Norwegian: Herculaneum
- Norwegian Bokmål: Herculanem
- Norwegian Bokmål: Herculaneum
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Herculaneum
- Occitan (post 1500): Herculanum
- Persian: هرکولانوم
- Persian: هرکولانیوم
- Polish: Herculanum
- Polish: Herkulaneum
- Polish: Herkulanum
- Portuguese: Herculaneum
- Portuguese: Herculano
- Romanian: Herculaneum
- Russian: Геркулан
- Russian: Геркуланум
- Sardinian: Ercolanu
- Scots: Herculaneum
- Serbian: Херкуланеум
- Serbian: Херкуланум
- Serbo-Croatian: Herculaneum
- Serbo-Croatian: Herkulanej
- Serbo-Croatian: Herkulaneum
- Slovak: Herculaneum
- Slovak: Herkulaneum
- Slovak: Herkulanum
- Slovenian: Ercolano
- Slovenian: Herculaneum
- Slovenian: Herculanum
- Slovenian: Herkulanej
- Slovenian: Herkulaneum
- Slovenian: Herkulanum
- Spanish: Ercolano
- Spanish: Herculano
- Swedish: Herculaneum
- Tagalog: Herculano
- Tajik: Gerkulanum
- Tajik: Геркуланум
- Tamil: ஹெர்குலியம்
- Thai: Herculaneum
- Thai: เฮอร์คิวเลเนียม
- Turkish: Herculaneum
- Turkish: Herkulaneum
- Ukrainian: Геркуланум
- Uzbek: Gerkulanum
- Vietnamese: Herculaneum
- Waray (Philippines): Herculaneum
- Welsh: Herculaneum
- Wu Chinese: 赫库兰尼姆古城
- Scavi di Ercolano
Other Places Named Herculaneum
Localities in the Area
- San Giorgio a CremanoTown
- Lava NuovoVillage, 3½ km east
- Santa Maria del PozzoNeighbourhood, 4 km north
- Sant'AntonioVillage, 4 km southeast
- MarianellaVillage, 4 km northwest
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