(town/comune in province of napoli, campania, italy)
(before the roman colonization, the area of today’s somma vesuviana was probably inhabited by italics populations like samnites and oscans)
(later it became a vacation place for the rich patricians of Rome, who built here magnificent villas)
(a villa of emperor augustus was discovered in the 1930s in the frazione of starza della regina, where he probably passed his last days of life)
(the villa was probably buried during the eruption of ‘vesuvius’ of 79 CE)