Ottaviano

Ottaviano is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, positioned about 20 kilometers east of Naples and is located inside the Vesuvian Area. Ottaviano become in Roman instances a hamlet of homes within a considerable assets belonging to the gens Octavia, Augustus's own family. The territory of the US consists of maximum of the crater of Vesuvius. The Medici Castle in Ottaviano homes the headquarters of the National Park of Vesuvius. Ottaviano suffered massive destruction at some point of the 1944 eruption of neighboring Mount Vesuvius. Now the town is home to the center administrative center of Vesuvius National Park.

Ottaviano end up in Roman times a hamlet of homes interior a great property belonging to the gens Octavia, Augustus's own family. The territory was the scene of battle amongst Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Lucius Cluentius in 90 BC, inside the route of the Social War. On the territory of Ottaviano, in the course of the Third Servile War, in 73 BC, Spartacus defeated the force stationed there. The village known as Octavianum grew in significance, turning into a municipality. According to a few historians it modified into right here that the Emperor Augustus clearly died, his body then being moved to Nola.