Vesuvius is a sight of unusual beauty in the landscape of the Gulf, especially when viewed from the sea with the city skyline. A famous picture postcard taken from the hill of Posillipo did get right in the collective imagination of the city of Naples, even by locals is considered a stereotype like the famous sun - sea - mandolin. Not as stereotypes, but more importantly is that Vesuvius has primacy in the world: this is the first volcano that has been studied systematically.

Dates back to 1841 to build an observatory (which still works, even if only as a dependance of the most modern facilities located in Naples) and we can say that the volcanology as a genuine scientific research, was born in those years.

Even in more recent years, we are the first decades of the twentieth century, when the Americans decided to create an observatory in Hawaii, he remade the experience of Vesuvius.

Since 1944 there has been no longer had its eruptions.