Catania Archives

The Musarra Rock

Posted on 31/01/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If you live or visit the eastern flank of volcano Mount Etna, where the great valley Del Bove opens, you will certainly spot Rocca Musarra, the Musarra Rock. It rises from the volcano’s “belly” like a scary giant tooth, surrounded by century-old cold lavas. The Musarra rock is a silent witness of important history. In […]

Winter sports on Mount Etna

Posted on 10/01/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a Sicilian volcano. Therefore in the world’s imagination it is a mountain off ire in a warm place, in the middle of the warmest sea in Europe! Yet, between January and February, when the Sicilian winter strikes the island in all its severe violence, the temperatures on this mountain (over 3000 meters […]

Discovering Aci St Antonio

Posted on 20/12/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If you want to live thoroughly Mount Etna you must also learn about its territory. A whole universe around it. Among so many big and small towns living on Etna’s products and tourism, we will tell you about Aci St Antonio (district of Catania). This is one of the nine “Aci Territory” towns, all belonging […]

Christmas at Linguaglossa

Posted on 13/12/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The gate to the cold northern flank of Mount Etna, and to its ski tracks, Linguaglossa is the capital of winter tourism in the Catania area. We already wrote about this lovely town, since it is a place many people love to visit, also in the summer. Gourmets also love Linguaglossa very much. Here you […]

Ognina, Catania and its lava cliff

Posted on 29/11/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

When you arrive in Catania on a cruise ship, or when – even better – you glide towards the airport, you will surely admire the expanses of black rock along the city’s waterfront. A first taste of the volcanic landscape that you will see if you take an excursion on Mount Etna. You can do […]