Italy Campania Ottaviano Metropolitan City Of Naples
Mount Vesuvius
A notorious stratovolcano known for its catastrophic AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy's Campania region.
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Anyone fancy a hike to the top of an active stratovolcano that is considered one of the most dangerous in the world and you’ve just learned destroyed a whole Roman city and everyone in it? Anyone? No?
Undeterred travelers who prize the thrills of clambering up a smoking caldera will push on and join the trail to the top. It’s not an easy climb. Wiggling through pine forests and up scree slopes, it eventually tops out on the crater rim. There, needless to say, the views are simply divine.
jrfrancis 3 years ago
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