Family activity holidays in Italy – Exploring the Bay of Naples

Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

The Bay of Naples stretches in a blue arc from the Sorrentine Peninsula to Cape Miseno, framed by the smoking cone of Mount Vesuvius. This Italian coastline offers a compendium of family-friendly attractions packed into a compact area. Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman cities buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, provide a history lesson that […]

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Monte Vesuvio – destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy

Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world, the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one of […]

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