View from Monte Faito towards northeast. Mount Vesuvius (1281 m) can be seen in the left background. The area around Mount Vesuvius is intensely urbanized and cultivated, so that hundreds of thousands of people would be at risk in case of another major eruption of the stratovolcano.

Keywords

coastscape, cultural landscape, mountainscape, mountaintop, stratovolcano, townscape, volcanism, Zonobiome IV

Created

Saturday 18 June 2016 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Italy (2387 visits)