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Mount Etna, a new eruption on its way

Posted on 10/11/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Finally, the lava appeared! It did it without any stress, without particular excitement. After three months of modest puffs, rings of vapour and tensions that almost all came from the Bocca Nuova crater, on the evening of November 10th it was the South East crater (SEC) that gave life to lively lava fountains. Small ones, […]

Mt Etna’s animals 2: have you met the wild cat?

Posted on 06/11/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

It is not easily seen, in fact it is so shy that many believe it is actually a legend. But has anyone ever really seen the “wild cat of Etna”? Yet this feline not only exists but is the “king” of the territory, precisely on the basis of its furtive, rapid and hidden movements. Very […]

Halloween mask “Etna style”: here’s how to create it

Posted on 30/10/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Even if it doesn’t seem like it, Mount Etna is also a place of magic linked to mysteries. There are stories of ghosts of queens who lost their slipper here, there are stories of mysterious sounds heard in Valle del Bove, and for some years mysterious sculptures have appeared among the most beautiful birch trees. […]

Walking in the woods, with or without a stick?

Posted on 23/10/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

What’s more relaxing than a nice walk in the woods? Nothing, if you have that unbridled desire to immerse yourself in nature with every fiber. The woods are almost always an arduous path, given that they are in the mountains or in any case at high altitudes. If the woods are part of the territory […]

Etna, eruptions of 1923 and 1928

Posted on 15/10/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The two eruptions that marked the 1920s on Etna are not connected to each other. In fact, they took place on two different sides and with a five-year break between each other. But they are linked by the danger and the feeling of disaster that they both brought with them. Rare sensations, because although Mount […]