page_title: Mount Vesuvius
section_title: National park
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Vesuvius / National park
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stereoskopie als im Lichtdruck vervielfältigte Ansichtskarte der Firma Knackstedt &amp; Näther mit der fortlaufenden Nummer 1355, hier mit einem Blick auf „Italien. Drahtseilbahn auf den Vesuv“ ... Français&#160;: Stéréoscopie de ... Italiano: Funicolare sul Vesuvio: carrozza "Etna".
context_page_description: Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure.
  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, as well as several other settlements. The eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases to a height of 33 km, erupting molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 6×10⁵ cubic metres per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings. More than 1,000 people died in the eruption, but exact numbers are unknown. The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus.
  Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.
context_section_description: The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park on 5 June 1995. The summit of Vesuvius is open to visitors and there is a small network of paths around the volcano that are maintained by the park authorities on weekends. There is access by road to within 200 metres (660 ft) of the summit (measured vertically), but thereafter access is on foot only. There is a spiral walkway around the volcano from the road to the crater.
caption: Funicular cable cars on Mount Vesuvius;
   stereoscopy, about 1900
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