Editing Tuff (section)

===Italy===
Tuff is common in Italy, and the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] used it for many buildings and bridges.<ref name="jackson-etal-2005"/> For example, the whole port of the island of [[Ventotene]] (still in use), was carved from tuff. The [[Servian Wall]], built to defend the city of [[Rome]] in the fourth century BC, is also built almost entirely from tuff.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Panei |first1=Liliana |title=The tuffs of the "Servian Wall" in Rome: Materials from the local quarries and from the conquered territories |journal=ArchéoSciences |date=10 April 2010 |issue=34 |pages=39–43 |doi=10.4000/archeosciences.2599|doi-access=free }}</ref> The Romans also cut tuff into small, rectangular stones that they used to create walls in a pattern known as ''[[opus reticulatum]]''.<ref>Giavarini, Carlo, A. Samueli Ferretti, and Maria Laura Santarelli. 2006. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GM47EQvTXeEC&dq=opus+reticulatum&pg=PA107 "Mechanical characteristics of Roman 'opus caementicium'"]. ''Fracture and Failure of Natural Building Stones. Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Monuments.'' pp. 108, 110</ref>

[[Peperino]] has been used in Rome and Naples as a building stone, is a [[trachyte]] tuff. [[Pozzolana]] also is a decomposed tuff, but of basic character, originally obtained near [[Naples]] and used as a [[cement]], but this name is now applied to a number of substances not always of identical character. In the historical architecture of Naples, Neapolitan yellow tuff is the most used building material.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.01.053 | doi=10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.01.053 | title=The Neapolitan Yellow Tuff: An outstanding example of heterogeneity | date=2017 | last1=Colella | first1=A. | last2=Di Benedetto | first2=C. | last3=Calcaterra | first3=D. | last4=Cappelletti | first4=P. | last5=d'Amore | first5=M. | last6=Di Martire | first6=D. | last7=Graziano | first7=S.F. | last8=Papa | first8=L. | last9=De Gennaro | first9=M. | last10=Langella | first10=A. | journal=Construction and Building Materials | volume=136 | pages=361–373 }}</ref> [[Piperno]] [[ignimbrite]] tuff was also used widely in Naples and Campania.