Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

For visitors to Naples or the Amalfi Coast, a morning spent hiking Mount Vesuvius should be combined with a trip to Pompeii, after all, you will be climbing to the top of the very volcano that ...

A British tourist has died after climbing Mount Vesuvius in Italy during a heatwave. The man, named locally as Mark John Irwin, was reportedly close to the summit of the volcano near Naples at the ...

Naples officials ... national park. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its violent eruption in A.D. 79., which devastated the Roman city of Pompeii and buried it in ash. The volcano has not erupted ...

Italy's Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli volcanoes ... the University of Naples Federico II, said to the BBC. "And that of course makes the Campi Flegrei more dangerous than Vesuvius." ...

Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma ...

There are many ways for a human being to die after a volcano erupts, and a blast like the one Vesuvius unleashed ... more dire scenario for Naples, the president of Italy's National Institute ...

Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) is a volcanic caldera near Naples, Mount Vesuvius ... active volcanoes in southern Italy. National emergency planning has been updated for Vesuvius as well ...

POMPEII, Italy – In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ... Maradona stadium and the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the background on September ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted ... the ancient settlement was obliterated in 79AD when the volcano erupted, killing thousands and burying both under ...