Vesuvius National Park is an Italian national park centered on the active volcano Vesuvius, southeast from Naples. The park was founded on June 5, 1995, and covers an area of around 135 square kilometers all located within the Province of Naples.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ercolano and Sant’Anastasia.

Ercolano

Town

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Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania of Southern Italy. It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Bay of Naples, just southeast of the city of Naples. Ercolano is situated 4½ km southwest of Lava 1944.

Sant’Anastasia

Town

Photo: Lusb, Public domain.

Sant'Anastasia is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 13 kilometres northeast of Naples. Sant'Anastasia borders the following municipalities: Casalnuovo di Napoli, Ercolano, Pollena Trocchia, Pomigliano d'Arco, Somma Vesuviana. Sant’Anastasia is situated 5 km north of Lava 1944.

Torre del Greco

Town

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Torre del Greco is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 as of 2016. The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century. Torre del Greco is situated 5 km southwest of Lava 1944.

Lava 1944

Type: Scree
Category: landform
Location: Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

40.82219° or 40° 49′ 20″ north

Longitude

14.40873° or 14° 24′ 31″ east

Open location code

8FGPRCC5+VF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 449121641

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=scree

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