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The World Coral's Capital: Torre Del Greco.
Torre Del Greco is a sunny and bustling Italian town in Naples Bay, at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius. It is famous worldwide for becoming the world's coral capital throughout the centuries.
Nowadays, Torre Del Greco is to coral what Bangkok is to colored stones and New York and Antwerp are to diamonds: the worldwide trade center for coral production.
The constant menace of the volcano Vesuvio almost imposed this activity on the inhabitants, forcing the coastal people to look to the sea for a dependable source of income over the centuries. The Bourbons stimulated the development of a coral industry at the turn of the eighteenth century, with the first factory established in 1805.
By 1837, there were eight factories; then, around 1850, an authentic explosion occurred in this industry, producing luxury objects to sell to wealthy European customers. Since then, Torre Del Greco has been riding the wave of the coral's capital of the World.
​With the Mediterranean coral banks depleting in the current century, Torre Del Greco also imports corals from Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, the Pacific, and the Atlantic to meet national and international demand. This rough will then be worked and transformed into single pieces for jewelry, strands, necklaces, and one-of-a-kind figurines, carvings, and ornaments.
With the "Made in Italy" trademark attached, these precious corals are simply the finest.
In Torre Del Greco, working coral is a family business. There are no big-size manufacturers, but instead, there are many small family-based enterprises, where employees are often members of the family and their relatives.
Obtaining untreated coral material is becoming an arduous task. Like sapphires, rubies, and emeralds, it is estimated that less than 5% of all coral on the market today is untreated. Treatments of coral consist of impregnating the pitted and cracked surface with polymers and dying to change the color. Lab-reconstructed man-made material is also available. This is basically natural coral ground into a fine powder, glued and hardened, reconstructed into solid slabs in various colors, and cut accordingly.
