Is this a real volcano?
Mount Etna is a volcano. We all know it, we can see it clearly and it certainly does not allow us to forget it with its periodic and spectacular eruptions. The conical shape, the…
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Mount Etna’s woods: not only hiking
A good part of the immense body of Mount Etna, especially below a certain altitude, is occupied by woods and small forests. These are places protected by the action of the Regional Park of…
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Etna: it’s the summer show!
Sixth paroxysm of the Voragine crater, now with a cadence of an eruption every 10-15 days. Mount Etna show for the summer is guaranteed and so is the joy of the tourists who are…
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Five things you shall NOT ask Etna people
Mount Etna is a “multitasking” volcano, beautiful and attractive, with enormous possibilities for outdoor activities and itineraries that – inevitably – attract crowds of tourists every year. Visitors from all over the world especially…
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Voragine Crater: master and commander!
The month of August opens with one of the most spectacular paroxysms seen in some years. Always him, the Voragine crater, the new surprising protagonist of Mount Etna show! After a very long period…
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Voragine Crater, a very exciting “stage eruption”
Voragine in eruption ... an event that fascinates because you rarely see it. Compared to the much more active South East crater (SEC), the Voragine crater (CVOR) of Etna takes long breaks between one…
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Discover Giarre and its monuments … including Etna!
Giarre is a delightful town located halfway between Catania and Taormina, with an airy and colourful historic core that includes neoclassical churches, Art Nouveau buildings and… a volcano! Exactly. Mount Etna is fully included…
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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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