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Mt Etna’s spring place 2: Pietra Cannone

Posted on 22/04/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The northern side of Mount Etna is the one that retains the coolness of winter for the longest, mixing it with the first warm spring temperatures. This creates a particular climate that allows beautiful colors to bloom. This is also why it is suitable for a spring destination, because it offers some corners full of […]

Patrick Brydone, the man who “discovered” Etna

Posted on 14/04/2024 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Some piedmont towns (Zafferana Etnea) even dedicated a road to him, today’s researchers are deeply grateful to him. Who is this man? Patrick Brydone, the man who “discovered” Mount Etna. Or rather one of the first to let the world discover this volcano, intended precisely as a source of geological and naturalistic studies. The world […]

Mount Etna’s great show of “gas rings”

Posted on 04/04/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna prepares a new eruption and does so in style, drawing the world’s attention to itself. It does this by emitting a “feast” of gas rings that, depending on the daylight and evening light, take on particular colors and brightness. In the photos accompanying this article – kindly provided by the photographer Marisa Liotta […]

The mysterious paroxysm of 2021

Posted on 31/03/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Year 2021 was one of the “busiest years” on Mount Etna in terms of eruptions. A crisis that began in 2020 led Sicily’s great volcano to erupt at an impressive rate for the next 20 months. So, what could be so “mysterious” in a paroxysm of 2021, that is in just one of the many […]

Three ideas for your … Easter with Etna!

Posted on 25/03/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Easter is the “gate to spring”, it is the celebration that throughout the Western world introduces the most beautiful season of the year. Here in the Etna area, Easter is a celebration linked to the sacredness of religion and the rituals in churches or squares (processions, sacred representations). So, people dedicate to nature and spring […]