After those rich days in Rome, overflowing with culture, it was time to leave. Train to Naples, and ferry to Sorrento.
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| Modern dome (shopping center) and the castle. From the port. |
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Pompeii was not enough. Being the only volcano in mainland Europe to have erupted in the last 100 years is not enough. Vast construction at the feet of Vesuvio (Vesuvius) Volcano.
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Mount Vesuvius (big cone with visible crater) and Somma.
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| Over 600,000 people live around the Vesuvius, in a densely populated area. As picturesque as this view from the ferry is, it would take 7 days to evacuate the area. It seems that Italians have an attraction for high risk impossible to tame, or they never learn from history and Nature, or they still believe this is a divinity of the genius type (as in 79AD)? |
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