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Bay of Naples

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A bay on Italy's western coast enclosing the city of Naples and overlooked by Mount Vesuvius, whose eruption in 79 CE buried the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Its shores have been continuously settled and prized for their scenery since antiquity.

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