Mount Vesuvius

When the children have had enough of history, there are boat trips across the Bay of Naples to the islands of Capri or Ischia - or you could march them up to the top of Mount Vesuvius, which is still a hot smoking volcano.

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Twenty thousand people farmed and traded in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

Pompeii's Life and Death on View in New York 2011

Lightning, observers have long known, tends to accompany volcano eruptions—Pliny even wrote about the lightning display at Mount Vesuvius when it blew and destroyed Pompeii.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Maybe it has something to do with spending time in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, above.

A Business Traveler's Guide to Naples Jeff Mills 2011

Their commitment to high-quality Italian cuisine is evident everywhere from the cornettos served instead of croissants at Caffè to Pizzeria Locale's pizza oven, made of clay, bricks and crushed rocks from Mount Vesuvius.

Lamb Spiedino 2011

Twenty thousand people farmed and traded in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

Pompeii's Life and Death on View in New York 2011

What happened next is frozen in time, preserved in an exquisitely detailed mosaic found buried beneath the ashes of Mount Vesuvius in the Roman town of Pompeii.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

What happened next is frozen in time, preserved in an exquisitely detailed mosaic found buried beneath the ashes of Mount Vesuvius in the Roman town of Pompeii.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Twenty thousand people farmed and traded in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

Pompeii's Life and Death on View in New York 2011

Several months earlier, in June 1817, the bulk of the sculpture had been unearthed just north of the Forum—the first big bronze to come out of the city devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.

Apollo Deconstructed Arnie Cooper 2011