Home Blog

The Blog

How to prepare for a winter trekking on Mt Etna

Posted on 20/02/2023 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano so fascinating and full of itineraries that exploring it and experiencing it is a pleasure in every season of the year. You don’t necessarily have to wait for spring or summer to go trekking on its paths, you can also plan it in winter. Prudence must be the basis of […]

The great snow storm of February 2023

Posted on 12/02/2023 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The coldest season on Mount Etna has always been January and February. In these two months, temperatures are usually lower than the average. Sometimes in exceptional cases the cold wave extends until March. With the progress of climate change, however, new phenomena come to change the habits of the territory of the great Sicilian volcano. […]

Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna

Posted on 06/02/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Mardi-Gras Carnival all around Mount Etna, as well as almost everywhere in Italy, dates back to the medieval Spanish tradition. That is, it granted three days of celebration without rules before the Lent period of penance. This festival is influenced by even more ancient echoes, which recall the Roman “bacchanalia” but then in the […]

About Mount Etna’s eruption of 1669

Posted on 30/01/2023 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It was a hundred and twenty-two days of apocalypse on earth. And the chronicles handed down from father to son still speak of it as one of the greatest eruptions ever recorded in the modern era. That of 1669, on the southern slope of Mount Etna, still remains today a grandiose natural event, devastating but […]

How to make Arab Bread and how to eat it

Posted on 23/01/2023 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Over the centuries, the territory of Mount Etna has unfortunately lost almost every trace of Arab domination. A not very long historical period (it lasted about two centuries) which left wonderful works of art and engineering in a large part of Sicily. These works are still there, in western Sicily, but here on the east […]