...The side that you take is the one that poured the lava that generated by the volcano during a massive eruption of 1906, reached and destroyed the village of Boscotrecase. This eruption was the most violent of the century, documented among others by then-reporter for the Naples daily Il Giorno, Matilde Sera: "Here in the great valley, which once was formed from an eruption, there, in the great valley, where olive trees and vines are grown on other lavas of ancient times, here's the lava ieri.Indescrivibile show! The giant black mass rises, mighty, bristling, rough, just steps away from us and it seems a dark sea petrified in its foamy waves and sparkling, a black and stormy sea, magically transformed into rock, rock, a sea stiff and dead. " The eruption did start on the first of April with the lava flow just described, but the flow was accompanied and followed by a shower of lapilli and bombs that struck Ottaviano and San Giuseppe Vesuviano, lowering the cone of a few hundred metri.La total length of 'route is 6877 m with a maximum altitude of 1050 m from slm.Partenza Trecase via Cifelli with duration of 7 hours.