Mount Vesuvius began to erupt most famously on August 24th in which year?
Mount Vesuvius in this way in his "Naturalis Historia": In AD 79 Vesuvius erupted in one of the most catastrophic and famous eruptions of all time. Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, a Roman administrator and poet who dated the eruption to August 24th. New evidence, however, suggests that this eruption may have occurred on October 24th. The volcano ejected a cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases to a height of , spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy
Mount Vesuvius 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. The first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius opened in 1880. It was later destroyed by the March 1944 eruption. "Funiculì, Funiculà", a famous Neapolitan language song with lyrics by journalist Peppino Turco set to music by composer Luigi Denza, commemorates its opening. Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius (; ; ; ; also '