The hike leads you to a cement road, which you need to walk on in order to reach the Vesuvius crater (or, in Italian, "Il Gran Cono del Vesuvio").

For a more comprehensive experience, the Vesuvius National Park maintains a network of11 hiking paths totaling over 30 miles of walkways, including Along the Cognoli, an 8-hour trek with birding ...

A hiking trail ascends to the crater of Vesuvius. iStock At the crater’s edge, gawping tourists peer past the sharp lichen-encrusted rocks into the mouth: an immense pit of steaming gravel.

A 56-YEAR-OLD British tourist has died after “falling ill” while hiking up Mount Vesuvius in Italy. The man, named by Italian media as Mark John Irwin, had been on holiday in Italy with… ...