Detourmap
Volcanoes in Italy
Italy has 29 volcanoes on Detourmap — volcanoes, craters, calderas and lava fields. The best known is Mount Vesuvius. All of them are below.
- Volcanoes
- 29
- Of nature
- 29 of 893
- Little known
- 10 of 29
- Oldest
- Mount Etna 300,000 years ago
-
2.Mount Etna
Nature · 3000th century BC · Iconic
Active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
-
3.Phlegraean Fields
Nature · Iconic
Volcanic region located in the Gulf of Pozzoles, west of Naples, Italy
-
8.Lake Bracciano
Nature · Notable
A lake of volcanic origin in the Italian region of Lazio, 32 km northwest of Rome. It is the second largest lake in the region and one of the major lakes of It…
-
15.Vulcano
Nature · Notable
Volcano on a small volcanic island by the same name in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Questions about this page
How many volcanoes are there in Italy?
29 on this map, out of 893 nature & landscapes in Italy. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known volcanoe in Italy?
Mount Vesuvius. Active stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy.
Which volcanoes in Italy are the least visited?
10 of the 29 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
Volcanoes elsewhere
More in Italy
All 893 nature & landscapes in Italy → · All 2,003 places in Italy →