X-Nico

8 unusual facts about Mount Vesuvius


Antonio Scarfoglio

He broke into reporting with a dramatic account of the devastating 1906 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

HMS Vesuvius

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vesuvius or HMS Vesuve, after the volcano Mount Vesuvius.

London Olympics

The 1908 Olympic Games were scheduled to take place in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 7 April 1906 required the Italian government to redirect funds away from the Olympics.

NG Life

Keidai Saeki is a high school student with memories of his past life as Sirix Lucretius Fronto, a gladiator in Pompeii who lost his wife Serena in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

As Sirix discovers this, he attempts to free Agalia but Mount Vesuvius erupts along the way.

Nola-Croce del Papa

The discovery of two bodies which had been caught by the Pyroclastic flow as they were fleeing a Volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius led archaeologists to find the lost settlement.

Signorinetta

She was bred, owned and trained by Cavaliere Edoardo Ginistrelli (1833–1920), who had come to England from Italy in the early 1880s after selling his stud and stable near Mount Vesuvius.

Volcano Live

They discover the future of volcanic forecasting and Iain travels to Pompeii to see the effects of Mount Vesuvius on the town.


Franco Ambrosio

Francesco Vittorio Ambrosio was born on 18 September 1932 in the village of San Gennariello di Ottaviano near Naples and close to Mount Vesuvius.

Villa of the Mysteries

Although covered with metres of ash and other volcanic material, the villa sustained only minor damage in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, and the majority of its walls, ceilings, and most particularly its frescoes survived largely undamaged.


see also