Catania Archives

Underground Catania … a walk through ancient lavas

Posted on 27/06/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists come to Sicily to admire many things, including two unmissable ones: the sea and Mount Etna. They would very much like to be able to experience the volcano while it is in full swing and, even if with fear, they often wonder what it feels like to be “inside” an eruption. The good news […]

Mascali risen from the lava

Posted on 09/05/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mascali rises in the middle of the woods, and from the woods it took its Greek name (which means “something bushy”). But the woods you see today around the town, overlooking the eastern coast of Sicily, are not the same millenarians that saw it a sit was born. These trees have risen amidst recent lava […]

River Alcantara and the magic place Lake of Venus

Posted on 02/05/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If you have never visited river Alcantara’s Gorges, you must do it at least once in your life. But before you do it, let yourself get to know less famous, less touristy places, and perhaps for this reason still wild and beautiful. The Gurne of Alcantara, in the territory of Francavilla di Sicilia, are an […]

Ideas for your Easter Picnic 2022 on Mount Etna

Posted on 11/04/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

You are supposed to spend Christmas with your family, but you can go where you like on Easter time! Maybe on Mount Etna, enjoying places but also food and great wines from Linguaglossa, to Sant’Alfio and up to Bronte. The Italian tradition says you shall just eat and pray, on Easter Day. But you can […]

Mt Etna’s mud volcanoes and “Maccalube”, what difference?

Posted on 21/02/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Each volcano has a life path with which it was born and then slowly dies. Very often these two extreme moments in the existence of these unique mountains are given by secondary phenomena. That is, by eruptions without fire but with other materials. Sometimes they are boiling water jets, the famous geysers. Other times they […]