Vesuvius

Collection title

Geo & Geo

ID

RAI00179

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

03/15/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Evocation of the history of Vesuvius with the printer Mario Raffone, the ethnomusicologist Roberto De Simone, the artist Gianni Pisani, the writer Vittorio Paliotti and the researchers of the Vesuvius Observatory Giovanni Orsi and Marcello Martini : on the charm and fascination aroused by Vesuvius on the imagination of Italians and tourists, the legends about the origins of Vesuvius, the danger of a dormant volcano likely to wake up again . In 79 BC an eruption destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. In 1631 a new eruption devastated the region. In 1944 the rain of ash and lava partly destroyed the city of San Sebastiano. View of the volcano with the Gulf of Naples, interior of the crater. Ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Paintings of the eruptions of Vesuvius.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Tre

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Biology

Secondary themes

• Landscapes and environment / Risks and disasters / Natural

Credits / Cast

• Farina Felice - Author of original work

Period of events

• From 0 to 500

Map locations

• Italy - South Italy - Naples

Original language

Italian

Media running time

20m28

Additional information

Photographs and archival images of American soldiers, inhabitants of the region and clouds of ash from the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944.