News from Mount Etna
Volcano updates and news from Catania and Sicily: we keep you posted on the latest from Mount Etna.
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It can happen. It happens. The tourist arrives with many expectations... he/she wants to see an eruption, a crater, a mountain slope, but the guide must dismantle their enthusiasm. And immediately there is disbelief,…
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Roars, puffs, column of ash...! It all seemed over but as we often say... it's Etna that decides. And always surprising. And so the eruptive activity of the Voragine crater (video by Michele Mammino…
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The Institute of Volcanology (INGV) statement took a while to arrive, but in the end it declared what all of us inhabitants - and lucky tourists - were already seeing. The explosive activity of…
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With the statement issued by the INGV (Geo-Volcanology Institute) on 29th June, the eruption at Mt Etna’s Voragine crater, one of the largest among the summit ones, seems to be coming to its top.…
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Paternò is a place of mystery. Not in the strictest sense of the term, but it is a city with a thousand faces and none of them seems to be the real one. Powerful…
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World War 2 had just ended when the Voragine crater opened at the top of Mount Etna. It was October 1945 and, suddenly, a portion of the thousand-year-old Central Crater - already flanked by…
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If you are a well-informed and passionate tourists, you will now know everything about Mount Etna, the highest and most famous active volcano in Europe. This gigantic mountain, which dominates the eastern coast of…
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When we take tourists to Mount Etna we recommend a thousand times to be careful, not to take this special mountain lightly. Etna is a volcano and like all volcanoes it is a constant…
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If you want to take a few moments of spirituality on Mount Etna, choose Piano Vetore to do so. Here, on this grassy plain that opens to the south-west flank, overlooking the summit craters…
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In the second week of May, a spectacular natural event involved practically the entire world, with greater interest in the northern hemisphere - Europe and North America. It was a series of magnetic storms…
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