More Crater Voragine show on July 15, 202
photos by GRAZIA MUSUMECI
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Birches of Etna and the climate change
They arrived in Sicily "against their will", transported by the conditions created thanks to the immense glaciations that hit Europe between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago. The birch trees of Mount Etna remained even…
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Tour on Mt Etna: what you can and cannot do
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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Powerful roars and lots of ash: Etna show
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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Etna: the great Voragine eruption started
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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The Voragine: is the eruption coming to its top?
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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Discovering … Paternò!
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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Etna, crater Voragine “sings” again!
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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Five mistakes you should never make on Etna
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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Lone Hikers: challenging Mt Etna every day
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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