Heir of the ancient Oplonti, the name Announced Tower drift from the medieval nail head dedicated to the SS. Announced. Its fortune must be attributed at the end to a realized channel of the ‘500 taking advantage of waters of the Sarno, affording to take advantage of the energy necessary for the operation of the flour mills, used in order to mill the grain and the mixture of sulfur, fine coal and salnitro for the gunpowder. The presence of a powder factory involved the birth of an arsenal and an ironworks. The pasta and the weapons divennero the characteristic elements of the place.
To be visited:
Archaeological area of Oplonti.
Important archaeological complex that it has given back the splendid villa of Poppea, immense roman suburbana villa that comprises 94 atmospheres, atrii, peristyles, triclinic, garden, kitchens, bathrooms, terme and a splendid olimpionica swimming pool. The architectonic elements have a rich decorative apparatus.
The villa of Lucullio Crassio is more modest.
Terme vesuviane Nunziante
The terme they take the name from the general who in the 1831 discovered to them.
The Real factory of weapons erected to half ‘700 for will of Carl III from Francesco Sabatini and Ferdinando Fuga. The factory accommodates a war activity, the military plant Fuses and, a small historical Museum of the weapons.
The church of S. reconstructed Gennaro after the eruption of 1631