Are active volcanoes densely distributed in Italy?

How much is not too much, just one, let Pompeii sleep for a thousand years.

Italy has two of the top ten volcanoes in the world.

Vesuvius is an active volcano on the European continent, located on the east coast of Naples Bay in southern Italy. It is one of the world-famous volcanoes, known as "the most dangerous volcano in Europe", with an altitude of 128 1 m (4,200 feet), about 1 1 km southeast of Naples, Italy, and an altitude of 65,438+. The world's largest volcano observatory is located here.

Mount Etna is called Aetna in Latin and Mongibello in Sicily. It is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, with an altitude of more than 3,200 meters. It is the highest active volcano in Europe.

They have one thing in common:

Located at the edge of Eurasian plate, Indian Ocean plate and African plate, it was formed by the drift, collision and extrusion of various plates.

Italy's southwest Mediterranean coast is a volcanic belt, and Italian volcanoes are basically distributed on nearby coasts and islands.