The area is a tourist destination , with the seaside Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius ( destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius ) , along the north coast .
The area is a tourist destination , with the seaside Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius . These towns were covered with volcanic ash in the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius .