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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Campania
- Metropolitan city
- Naples (NA)
- Frazioni
- Guindazzi, Musci, San Gennariello-Laurenzana, Tamburiello, Trocchia
- Total
- 8.1 km (3.1 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 149 m (489 ft)
- Density
- 1,700/km (4,300/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pollena Trocchia is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 11 km (6.8 mi) east of Naples.
It was created in 1811 from two already existing villages, Pollena and Trocchia, both of Samnite-Etruscan origin. Pollena took its name from the cult of Apollo, who had an important temple here in the Roman and pre-Roman ages. Both were destroyed by the 1631 eruption of Vesuvius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pollena Trocchia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.