Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Below the Clouds" (Venice Film Festival) These days, it can be tricky for an Italian filmmaker to make a movie about the city of ...

View of the historic center of Naples, from the hills to the north east. (Antuang/ CC-BY-SA-4.0) (CN) — Naples, Italy’s ancient southern metropolis dominated by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, is in the ...

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted as the entrance to the underworld. Its eruptions thousands of years ago blocked out the sun, turning summer into winter. And now the ...

Mount Vesuvius does not sit quietly in the background. It rises behind the city like a reminder. Of power. Of history. Of fragility. Naples grew beneath its shadow, shaped by the sea in front of it ...

In Italy hundreds of thousands of people are living directly on top of an active volcano. In the shadow of Italy’s Vesuvius, a lesser-known volcano rumbles: Campi Flegrei. An eruption could endanger ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. By ...

“Today the volcano is quite calm,” says Paola Petrosino, as smoky wisps of water vapour seep from rocks behind her. “It’s in a phase of dormancy but it’s active.” We’re inside Vesuvius National Park, ...

These days, it can be tricky for an Italian filmmaker to make a movie about the city of Naples, considering that Italian filmmaking icon Paolo Sorrentino almost owns that turf. Sorrentino has focused ...

In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it. In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano ...