Active Volcanoes
Three of Italy's volcanoes have erupted in the last hundred years:
- Mount Etna, on Sicily (continuous activity)
- Stromboli, one of the Aeolian Islands (continuous activity)
- Mount Vesuvius, near Naples (last erupted in 1944); the only active volcano in mainland Europe.
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