is there a national park located close to this site?
The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park
Mount Vesuvius
The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park 
where is mt. vesuvius located on a map Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy is this a volcanic mountain or a non-volcanic type? Volcanic when did it last erupt? 1631 what was the evidence to prove that the mountain had erupted in the first century ad? Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, a Roman administrator and poet. In the surviving copies of the letters several dates are given. what is the height of this peak? UNANSWERABLE how was this peak formed? Vesuvius was formed as a result of the collision of two tectonic plates, the African and the Eurasian. is there any reason why this peak is prone to volcanoes? It is one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure.
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Mount Vesuvius [SEP] National park
The area around Vesuvius was officially declared a national park on 5 June 1995. The summit of Vesuvius is open to visitors and there is a small network of paths around the volcano that are maintained by the park authorities on weekends. There is access by road to within of the summit (measured vertically), but thereafter access is on foot only. There is a spiral walkway around the volcano from the road to the crater.