Boscoreale

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Boscoreale
Comune
Comune di Boscoreale
Municipal park
Municipal park
Coat of arms of Boscoreale
Coat of arms
Location of Boscoreale
Map
CountryItaly
RegionCampania
ProvinceNaple (NA)
FrazioniCangiani, Marchesa, Marra, Passanti, Pellegrini
Government
 • MayorGiuseppe Balzano
Area
[1]
 • Total11.28 km2 (4.36 sq mi)
Elevation
65 m (213 ft)
Population
 (30 September 2015)[2]
 • Total28,066
 • Density2,500/km2 (6,400/sq mi)
DemonymBoschesi
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
80041
Dialing code081
Saint dayJuly 16
WebsiteOfficial website

Boscoreale Italian pronunciation: [boskoreˈaːle] is an Italian comune and town in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, with a population of 27,457 in 2011.[2] Located in the Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio, under the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, it is known for the fruit and vineyards of Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio. There is also a fine Vesuvian lava stone production.

History

Female bust of a silver dish (one of a matching pair) from the 1st Century Boscoreale Treasure on display in the British Museum.[3]
Roman fresco from Boscoreale, 43-30 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also: Villa Boscoreale

The neighborhood Monte Bursaccio, which was overcome by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE that obliterated and preserved its better-known neighbors, Pompeii and Herculaneum, is famous for the frescoes of its aristocratic villas, excavated before World War I. A hoard of Roman silver and coins that had been hurriedly stashed in a cistern for protection at the time of the eruption was also recovered in Boscoreale in 1895, and divided among several museums, including the Louvre and the British Museum.

Boscoreale, about a kilometer north of Pompeii of which it was an expansive, more rural outlying suburb, was notable in antiquity for having numerous aristocratic country villas and was preserved as a hunting park - hence its name, meaning "Royal Grove" - by the kings of Naples.

The villa of P. Fannius Synistor (see Villa Boscoreale) was built and decorated shortly after mid-first century BC. The quality of its frescoes seems to have preserved them from changes in fashion, before the villa was entombed in the eruption.

The Antiquarium of Boscoreale was founded in 1991 by the Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei thanks to the finds from Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, Terzigno, and Boscoreale and to a didactic apparatus.

The neighboring Boscotrecase yielded some elite works of art to excavators at the same time, in particular at the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, also known as the Imperial Villa or the Villa of Augusta.

Geography

The municipality is part of Naples metropolitan area, and borders with Boscotrecase, Poggiomarino, Pompei, Scafati (SA), Terzigno, and Torre Annunziata. It counts the hamlets (frazioni) of Cangiani, Marchesa, Marra, Passanti, and Pellegrini.

Art, Culture an International Awards

  • Vitale, Veronica (2010). Nel mio Bosco Reale. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: FBP Music Publishing. {{cite AV media}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

"Nel mio bosco Reale" - debut album of Veronica Vitale a.k.a. Ivee, international pop artist and multi-talented researcher in the field of systems theory. Her first album released worldwide in 2011 is entitled "Nel mio bosco Reale", outright inspired to her ancient hometown Boscoreale. Because of her outstanding works done as scientist and artist abroad her own country Veronica Vitale has got the Excellency Honor from Boscoreale Town on 27 September 2014. With "Nel mio bosco Reale" album,achieves the Amazon.de Top Ten and the Foreign Critics Award for contributing to revolutionize the inner structure and the very essence of the typical Italian pop music system in Germany, by promoting and empowering the value of the Italian linguistic diversity in music,enhancing it just like English,contributing to an international Italian music style abroad her own country, writing off the typical stereotypes about the Italian people, choosing rather to display all over the world the true Italian culture, art, and history.

  • Vitale, Veronica (2010). 1100. Frankfurt am Main: FBP Music Publishing. {{cite AV media}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |2= (help)

1100 (Mille & Cento) autobiographical song from Nel mio bosco Reale (2011) - dedicated to Boscoreale.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Template:It icon Source: Istat 2011
  3. ^ British Museum Collection

Sources

  • Baratte, François (1986). Le Trésor d'orfèvrerie romaine de Boscoreale. Paris: Musée de Louvre. ISBN 2-7118-2048-3.

External links

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