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4 unusual facts about Francesco Caracciolo


Francesco Caracciolo

The local port of St. Lucia nevertheless took care of Caracciolo's remains, giving him a proper funeral and burial at church of Santa Maria della Catena.

It is likely that he was named after St. Francis Caracciolo, a Saint within the Catholic Church and Francesco's many times great uncle.

Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship

Marcantonio Colonna was laid down on 3 March 1915 at the Odero Shipyard in Sestri Ponente.

Villa Comunale

The seaside road, via Caracciolo, which now lies between the aquarium and the sea, is another more recent reclamation project added to the city in 1900 to provide another connecting road between the city and the suburbs to the west.



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