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Best Volcanoes in Italy
If you’re ever in or around Pompeii or Napoli, you surely will see the hill in the background. It is the volcano Mount Vesuvius (or Monte Vesuvio in Italian). It is not very high – about 1277 m but it has a lot of troubled history. It [...]
Aeolian Islands (sometimes called shortly “Lipari”) lies at the northern coast of Sicily. Lipari consist of seven islands: Vulcano, Lipari, Stromboli, Panarea, Salina, Alicudi and Filicudi. This archipelago is unique for a volcanic activity, which along with numerous geological attractions make these islands grateful to the tourists. [...]
Mount Etna (Muncibeḍḍu (beautiful mountain) in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian) is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. According to Adrian Room’s book Placenames of the World, the name Etna is said to have originated from a Phoenician word [...]
Stromboli is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy. It is one of the eight Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc north of Sicily. The island has a population of between 400 and [...]