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 ...

This stunning satellite photo shows one of the world's most famous and potentially dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, playing a game of peek-a-boo with an orbiting spacecraft through a strangely ...

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 ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A cable car carrying tourists south of Naples crashed Thursday after the cable snapped, killing at least three people and injuring one. One person was missing, officials said. Italy’s alpine ...

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.