Eruption Archives

On Mt Etna during an eruption

Posted on 14/09/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

An eruption. The dream of all tourists who come to Mt Etna. Why, then, should they visit a volcano? The eruption is the show! You look at the craters in the hope of something to happen, praying for it. And it usually happens, especially on Mt Etna. This is the most interesting active volcano in […]

Magazzeni, where the lava changed its course

Posted on 31/08/2020 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

At about 6 km off the small town of Sant’Alfio, in a place almost wild and unhabited, you will find a small church with the typical alpine architecture. The Magazzeni Church. The name is quite strange, it reminds of a noble family or of “magazzini” (warehouses) used to keep agricultural tools. But it refers to […]

Milo, the small Fornazzo chapel in the hug of the lava

Posted on 03/08/2020 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Going on with our itinerary of the Etnean churches buried or touched by the lava, we will visit the Sacro Cuore. After the surprising churches of Nunziata, Mompileri and Campanarazzu there we go along the road leading from the eastern flank to Etna North. You take it in the village of Fornazzo, a part of […]

Etna and Stromboli, which connection?

Posted on 20/07/2020 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists ask it all the time. Local people are almost sure of that. Etna and Stromboli must be connected. Maybe by a thin, underground and lava-red thread! It must be so, because their explosions and eruptions are often concurrently. One calls, the other answers back. Like an echo. This fact is quite funny, but the […]

Church of Campanarazzu, Misterbianco

Posted on 13/07/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Campanarazzu is the third step of our itinerary. This is another church buried by the lava of Mt Etna. It is in Misterbianco, south-west of Catania. Seen from here, Etna seems far away, but it has left traces on this land as well. It happened in 1669, during the side eruption of Montirossi Craters, a […]