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Nicolosi Pinewood. Picnic in a crater

Posted on 27/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If we can experience the feeling of having a picnic in a crater, today, or eating and walking at the foot of beautiful pine trees inside a natural basin, this is due to a terrible event of the 17th century. The side eruption of Monti Rossi hit the place and the people, detroying many lives. […]

The most beautiful lava shores in Sicily

Posted on 20/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Beaches are charming, all of them, all the time. Not just because they make us imagine summer, warm days, holidays, but also because they remind us of the hard work nature has been doing – during the centuries – to give us such a precious present. And if beaches mean all that, beaches made of […]

Timpa di Acireale, a walk on a fault

Posted on 13/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

How many times have you heard of the famous “faults”, that is the portions of land – parts of our planet – that sliding on each other cause more or less powerful earthquakes? Sicily is a complicated and vast system of faults. They multiply around and above the volcano, Mt Etna, on the Ionian coast. […]

Fiume Freddo Natural Park and the tourist Port of Etna

Posted on 06/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Along the mouth of the watercourse here known as the Freddo river rise some of the most beautiful beaches of the Sicilian Ionian coast . Several kilometers of sands that wind from the tourist port of Riposto – the Port of Etna – to the border with Giardini Naxos, formed by the lava cliffs of […]

Mt Etna, the charming churches of Sant’Alfio

Posted on 30/12/2019 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

On the eastern side of Mt Etna, overlooking the wonderful view of the Ionian coast, the small town of Sant’Alfio stands all around the parish church of the same name. The church is dedicated to the saint martyr brothers Alfio, Cirino and Filadelfo, whose story dates back to year 253 AD. The three were christian […]