Bay of Naples & Sorrento with Equity School Trip

Using the burial of Pompeii as a case study, your students will gain a unique insight into how a similar event might play out in modern times with modern volcano monitoring equipment and a far denser population. You'll be able to discuss how the volcano is monitored, how certain scientists might be of an impending eruption, when they might decide to sound the alarm, and how they might be able to evacuate those likely to be affected. On the opposite end of the scale, you can also discuss how the volcano created the rich soils, beautiful landscapes and vegetation, and the unique archaeological sites that draw so many people to the region every year.

Using Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii as a case study, you'll be able to discuss volcanic processes, the release of nutrients into the surrounding area, the deposition of volcanic materials, and how Mount Vesuvius might just be a smaller part of the much larger Campi Flegrei volcanic system. While touring the Isle of Capri, you'll also be able to take a scenic boat ride around the island to gain a unique perspective on the stunning coastal landforms and cliffs that make this island so famous.

Mount Vesuvius provides a brilliant opportunity for students interested in Geology to see the power that the earth can produce in a relatively short period of time. From studying the depositional stratigraphy from the eruption, you can learn about the different phases that the volcano went through during its eruption, and what that meant for the local population. Further around the bay, you'll also have the opportunity to study additional active craters and fumaroles of the much larger, Campi Flegrei supervolcano. Whether it's the boiling mud baths and sulphurous gas emitted from the Solfatara crater, or the evidence for isostatic sea level change at the Macellum Temple of Serapis, you'll find plenty of case studies here for Geologists to study and learn about.

Throughout your trip to the Bay of Naples, you'll find the area steeped in classical history. From the numerous Roman temples dotted around the region, to the world-famous sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were exquisitely preserved by the volcanic eruption, you'll be able to follow in the footsteps of the local Roman population and gain a far deeper understanding of what everyday life must have been like for them.