The Vesuvius and the other volcanoes of Central Italy

The Italian Peninsula is unique in the world for the high number, more than fifty, of recent to active volcanoes characterised by extremely different petrochemical features and eruption styles. Eight of them erupted in historical times. Vesuvius, along with Etna and Stromboli, is one of the most famous volcanoes in the world. The report of the Pompei eruption made by Plinius the young might be considered the first paper on Volcanology. The Field Trip will start from Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei, the two nearby volcanoes that encircle the city of Naples, merging the visit to the escavated ancient town of Hercolaneum to observe the geological record of the Pompei eruption, which brought to dramatically destroy all the towns around the Vesuvius, and the effect of the different eruption phases on buildings. In the following days the field trip will move from the Neapolitan area trhough the Roman Magmatic Province to observe the products and the volcanological features of the other Roman volcanoes make stops at Roccamonfina, Colli Albani (Alban Hills), Vico, Cimino, Vulsinian, Amiata and Radicofani volcanoes, to have a complete picture of the whole volcanic activity of the Tyrrhenian border of the Italian Peninsula.