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Villa Tropeano

  • Visit: about 50 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

18th-century villa in Ponticelli that from 1928 housed the first institute of social medicine in southern Italy.

In Ponticelli, along via De Meis on the border with Cercola, Villa Tropeano was built in the 18th century as a country residence.From 1928 it housed the Institute of Pedagogical Medicine founded by the doctor Giuseppe Tropeano, considered the first institute of social medicine in southern Italy. Closed in the 1990s, it awaits restoration.

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