Emergency in the Roman city.

Competence, art robbery and decay: The ruins of ancient city of Pompeii is located in an ailing condition, because the money for conservation measures is missing. Some geologists now believe even an early eruption of Vesuvius neighboring possible.
  Naples / Pompeii - The Masters wraps itself in clouds and in silence. It is as if he wanted to look close to all the garbage that is on the roads to him are still piling up. On the radio the southern Italian city of Naples million is a heated debate underway on the recent decree from Rome, the harsh penalties for announcing, in the area around Vesuvius rusting cars or broken refrigerators just on the edge of the street waste.
Bored, the driver of the "Vesuvius Express" and the radio from the vehicle, invites the dozen or so tourists. Another steep zigzag pieces on foot and the throats of sleeping colossus is achieved - the only active volcano on European mainland, whose eruption 2,000 years ago soon buried Pompeii.
At the top of the crater rim Wabern impenetrable swaths of red lava. No, here it is not seething from the bottom of the deep hot high, not threatening or fatal Gashauch hellish glowing magma flow.
Rather, the 1281-meter high Vesuvius on the Gulf of Naples, first of all just a mountain. And as such he wraps often in thick clouds. From the island of Capri might be so look as if smoke and steam from the earth's train would break. But it rains only drizzles incessantly. Cold and moisture penetrate through and through. Even the souvenir vendor suffers, offers his listless minerals and Campania American wine. That should be the dangerous Vesuvius, which researchers say it could soon become active again and the lives of hundreds of thousands at risk?
Fishermen have problems than others the Volcano
Tags that adorns only a cloud of the crater, the Basic looks exactly like the smoke plume of the volcano spitting, as they each painted picture of Naples with Vesuvius belongs. He is terrific in the sunlight on the picturesque golf, but the fishermen on the beach of Marina Grande Sorrento turn their backs on him.
The Vesuvius will be dangerous again? You shrug the shoulders, prefer to study sports newspaper, especially since Naples Premier club has played famous again. What them burning: how they deal with their meager water quotas on hold, the recent garbage chaos, poverty in times of economic crisis and the uncertain future.
ITALY-QUIZAFPPasta, pesto, Prosecco - that everyone knows. But what is behind the Vespa, who has invented the Cosa Nostra, and where is the oldest pizzeria? The SPIEGEL ONLINE Italy Test your knowledge is put to the test. Andiamo! Muck At the moment he is not, shows only mild evening light in his face peaceful life. But the small seismographic equipment on the bizarre crater rim it demonstrate and warn. There must therefore be measured continuously, even if the Vesuvius in the past six decades was not so active, such as Etna. But exactly what could be deceptive, said Italian and French geologists recently in the magazine "Nature".
Since a devastating outbreak of violence from the depth was again possible, as on that of August in 79 AD, when lava is not only the ancient Pompeii is buried under there alone and more than 12,000 people killed. Around the clock watch scientists of the Osservatorio Vesuviano therefore every emotion of Vesuvius, and the Italian Civil Protection is working on an ambitious evacuation plans.
"Life is finally"
If the Neapolitans from Vesuvius speaks, he is philosophical. And a trail mixes a pride: "The people do not see as a threat. Look, life is finally," explains the hotel porter Mario curious guest: "You do not know when it happened." A kind Schicksalsergebenheit, a Mediterranean perspective on life. Particularly but live thousands of Vesuvius, which attracts tourists. Not to mention the millions who each year visit Pompeii and Herculaneum, their attractiveness to the Vesuvius owe.
With the weather improves will also look again at what was lava is neglected and thus was preserved. More than 2.5 million tourists in 2007, after Pompeii geströmt, fascinated by the huge city of ruins from ancient times.
Since 1997, on the UNESCO list of cultural heritage, is Pompeii before the archaeologists a mountain seemingly impossible task. The size of the ancient city is not alone when pessimists "Downfall a second Pompeii" fear. The ravages of time, vandalism and inaction threaten walls, frescoes and murals; bureaucratic proliferation and different interests hindering much-needed work.
Pompeii, which is a long, fascinating and even walk across town flagging bumpy patch in the distant past. The maze of ruins, wall pieces and alleys is also the area of numerous stray dogs, which warned before, and for some vierbeinige only the embodiment of decay are.
Other signs are the robbers, in the still under volcanic ash of Pompeii outside of the part of UNESCO Heritage site dig, and in summer the cutthroat on the hunt for tourists willing to pay to a parking lot looking for her car.