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Vico and its History.
Not only beautiful vineyards, citrus and olive groves degrading to sea from the path of the gods and by the Monte Faito,
but also a line of coast sung by Homer, with historical that leave dall'archeologia until the age modern. In the "Antiquarium" by V. E.,
a specimen of the VI century B. C. bears witness to the presence of settlements already in the era pre.
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Cathedral of SS. Annunziata
Vico Equense
Between the heroes of the Punic Wars is mentioned the charioteer murrano, coming from the earth "aequana", which is dedicated the road that leads to Marina of fair. The latter includes coastal area between the Gothic Cathedral and the Beach of limestone, where traces of maritime Villas already dating back to the century. C.. One of these was adorned by a splendid marble group of "Love and Psyche" currently hosted in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
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The coasts of the Marina of fair were already then very crowded ranging from the
high Roman society; this prosperity lasted until said of the Vesuvius of 79 AD,
when the area was involved in the catastrophe that destroyed the nearby Stabia,
Pompeii and Herculaneum. The current urban structure dates back to Angioino, a
time when it was also independent from Sorrento.
Vico in the 18 th century became a lively cultural enlightenment through Gaetano Filangieri, author of the other of an important correspondence with one of the Fathers of the American Constitution Benjamin Franklin. Filangieri was the forerunner of the movement political and cultural that culminated in the proclamation of the Neapolitan republic in 1799. In this turbulent period Vico and its Archbishop, Monsignor Christmas, were the protagonists, and that the latter then victim of harsh repression Bourbon.
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