Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano located at the Bay of Naples. It distance from the city of Naples is about 9 kilometres and is positioned in the east of the city. It is not much far away from the shore. The Mount Vesuvius is credited with having the reputation of being the only volcano on the European mainland to erupt during the course of about 100 years.   The two other prominent active volcanoes in Italy are Etna and Stromboli that are volcanic islands.

In history, Mount Vesuvius is notorious for its eruption in AD 79 that contributed to the devastation of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. And the cities failed to ever emerge and to be reconstructed and the looters rest perished the city after the damage from eruption. Hence the cities were forgotten for a long time and suddenly rediscovered in the 18th century. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was so massive that   it even changed the course of the river Sarno and raised the sea beach, this development led to the Pompeii never being on the river nor at the close to the coast. During the Course Vesuvius also went through the major changes as its slopes remained without any vegetation and its head changed permanently due to the force of the eruption. Since then, Vesuvius has been reputed for many times and presently is considered as the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to its population of about 3,000,000 people living at close by areas. It is among the most densely populated volcanic region of the world.

Vesuvius is popular and known for its long and historic and literary tradition. It was observed as a divinity of the genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 AD. It appears as inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines that have been survived from the Pompeii. Vesuvius is a unique  “humpbacked” mountain that is consisted of a massive cone (Gran Cono) especially   encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera as generated  by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure named Monte Somma. The Gran Cono was produced during the eruption of AD 79. Therefore, volcano is also termed as Somma-Vesuvius or Somma-Vesuvio.

The height of the primary cone has changed considerably by eruptions, but at present it is about 1,281 m (4,202 ft) at present. Monte Somma is 1,149 m (3,770 ft) high, parted from the main cone by the valley of Atrio di Cavallo that is about 3 miles long. The slopes of the mountain are rugged by lava flows but are intensely vegetated, with scrub and forest at higher altitudes and a vineyard as far as one goes down. Vesuvius is as now is even regarded and treated as an active volcano, yet its current activity produces little more than steam from vents at the bottom of the crater.

As far as for the Neapolitan cuisines, there one can easily found abundance of sea food in the dishes and recipes. The majority of the seafood used in Neapolitan cuisines is obtained from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Recipes, in cooking uses rather less expensive fishes like particular anchovies, and other fishes. The most common varieties of the fishes used includes as zuppa, scorfano, tracina, cuoccio. The medium and big fishes include varieties as spigola and orate. The fishes from fish farm include as dentice, sarago and pezzogna. The very small fishes are the cicenielli which are too small and transparent and are prepared either steamed or fried in dough. The fravagli is a few centimeter long fish primarily of triglia or retunni are generally fried ones. The baccalà (cod) and stockfish, are imported from northern Europe seas, and are served either fried or cooked with potatoes and tomatoes.

Shellfish cozze (mussels), vongole (clams), cannolicchi (Ensis siliqua, taratufi, telline (Donax trunculus), sconcigli (Haustellum brandaris)) are also used in a number of seafood meals and many a times are eaten raw. Though, it is prohibited by law to sell and eat the sea dates as there serious fishing damages the sea coastline rocks, primarily into the Sorrento peninsula. Seafood is also used extensively in the Pasta Dishes as well. The Spaghetti, linguine and paccheri are mixes very well with fish and seafood. The pasta dishes prepared using fishes are used elaborately in important lunches and dinners; prominently for wedding reasons. The most popular fishes used with pasta include as Spaghetti alle vongole, Paccheri con la zuppa di pesce and Pasta con i calamari, with squid sauce, cooked along with white wine. Many a times the conventional dishes of pasta with legumes are even mixed with seafood for example one such is pasta e fagioli con le cozze (pasta with beans and mussels), or other more modern types like pasta with zucchine and clams.

One of the most popular seafood dishes comes from the quarter ‘Santa Lucia’: polpi alla luciana, where octopus is there cooked with chili pepper and tomato. There Octopus is also normally steamed and is prepared with salad along with lemon juice, parsley and green olives. A richer seafood salad can be made there mixing squid, cuttlefish and prawns. The Medium size fishes are prepared and cooked as all’acqua pazza, with tomato, garlic and parsley; the bigger one there are normally grilled in the important meals in the king size prawns. Mussels are made in varieties of way and cheap fishes are also thus produced in very tasty recipes. The most popular one there are anchovy.

The Naples National Archaeological Museum is a museum situated in Naples at southern Italy, at the northwest center of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis. The museum there contains a huge collection of article and Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. That collection involves the highest quality work as generated during the Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. It is the one of the most noted Italian archaeological museum.

The core of all the Greek and Roman antiquities in the museum is the Farnese Collection that includes the collection of the engraved gems and the Farnese Marbles. Charles III of Spain established the museum in the 1750s. The building that he employed there is presently is used as the cavalry barracks and during its time was the seat of the University of Naples and was further extended apart in the late 18th century.

Marbles that is another great works in the museum is the part of the museum’s classical sculpture that has arrived from the Farnes Marbles as it involves the Roman copies of classical Greek sculpture. They are the only surviving indication that was lost work by the great Greek sculptors like as Calamis, Kritios and Nesiotes and others. Some of these works has been transported to the Museo di Capodimonte to be showed in recent years. Some of the popular works there are as The Farnese Hercules, that fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination, The Farnese Atlas is the another oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, primarily based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus. The Farnese Bull is known to be the largest and heaviest sculpture that has been recovered there. The Venus Kallipygos, The Farnese Artemis, again a Roman copy of a Greek original and a collection of busts of Roman emperors.

The mosaic collection of the museum includes the good number of unique portraits as recovered from the ruins of Pompeii and other Vesuvian cities. The Egyptian collection there is a third largest collection of Egyptians artifacts in Italy, after the Vatican Museum and the Muse Egizio in Turin. This is made up of two private collections as collected by Cardinal Borgia at the second half of the 18th century, and Picchianti in the first years of the 19th.  Secret Cabinet is a separately housed collection of erotic Roman art.