Portici, a town of Italy, on the slope of Vesuvius, 5 miles by rail SE. of Naples. Its environs are delightful, and are dotted over with country-houses. The royal palace built (1738) by Charles III. is now an agricultural college. There are a small fort, fishing, and sea-bathing. Silk-worms are reared and ribbons made. Pop. 12,272.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 332
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