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Naples, Italy!
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Quiz: Mount Vesuvius is still an active volcano, so what year did it last erupt? |
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Shot
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Around Naples, Italy. |
Equipment
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Pentex K1000 |
Date | 1994 |
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Panoramic photo mosaic of Naples, Italy and Mount Vesuvius (above).
Castle dell' Ovo (Egg Castle) (right) with Mount Vesuvius in the background. It was built in the 1st century BC the Romans than rebuilt by the Normans in the 12th century. The name of this castle derives from the egg that the Latin poet Virgil apparently hid in a cage placed in the dungeons of the castle. The egg was locked up and kept hidden because "the fortune of the Sea Castle depended on that egg". |
Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy, and is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum and it is still active. |
Mount Vesuvius.
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Naples, Italy and Mount Vesuvius.
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Door to the Church of Gesł Nuovo (New Jesus) was originally a palace built in 1470 (right).
Fountains and gazebos (below). |
Roman ruins. |
Small shrine to Mary. |
Mount Vesuvius at sunset.
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Panoramic photo mosaic of Mount Vesuvius' creater.
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Answer to Quiz ==> | 1944. |