Thursday, June 20, 2013

Capri 卡普里岛



Capri is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town Capri on the island shares the name. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic.

 
Features of the island are the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara (a high panoramic promenade lined with villas), the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the Faraglioni), the town of Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas.

 
Capri is part of the region of Campania, Province of Naples. The town of Capri is the island's main population centre. The island has two harbours, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the main port of the island). The separate comune of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the west.
 

卡普里岛(Capri),又譯卡布里島,意大利那不勒斯湾南部,索伦托半岛外的一个小岛,自从罗马共和国时代以来就以风景秀丽闻名,是著名的旅游胜地。卡普里属于坎帕尼亚大区的那不勒斯省。卡普里市是岛上主要的人口中心。人口2004年底统计为7278人。 
无论对意大利人还是对外国人,卡普里都是旅游目的地。在1950年代.在夏季,该岛游客众多。
卡普里有班次频密的渡轮和水翼艇前往那不勒斯和索伦托。
 
 


 



 
 









 



 

 









 







 



 

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Mount Vesuvius 维苏威火山

 
Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio, Latin: Mons Vesuvius) is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure.


Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 20.5 miles, spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing. An estimated 16,000 people died due to hydrothermal pyroclastic flows. The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. 


Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years. Today, it is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people living nearby and its tendency towards explosive (Plinian) eruptions. It is the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.
 
 
维苏威火山(Vesuvio)是欧洲大陆唯一的活火山,位于意大利南部那不勒斯湾东海岸,同世界名城那不勒斯相距不過20公里。海拔1,281米(4,200英尺)。


维苏威在公元79年的一次大喷发,摧毁了当时拥有2万多人的庞贝城,其他几个有名的海滨城市如赫库兰尼姆、斯塔比奥等也遭到严重破坏。直到18世纪中叶,考古学家才将庞贝古城从数米厚的火山灰中发掘出来,古老建筑和姿态各异的尸体都保存完好,这一史实已为世人熟知,讓今人明白其滅亡的根本原因,庞贝古城也成为意大利著名旅游胜地。
 

地理成因

维苏威火山的形成是非洲板块和欧亚板块相互碰撞的结果。维苏威火山在历史上喷发过很多次。最近的一次喷发发生在1944年,是欧洲大陆唯一的一座在近一百年内喷发过的火山。 即便到现在,游客们常常能够在游览这座火山时看到火山口冒出的白烟。