Etna Archives

Etna: new paroxysmal phase

Posted on 07/04/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna has entered a new paroxysmal phase, as is usual for this perpetually active volcano, accustomed to “changing its attitude” from time to time. The episodes characterized by small explosions, with lively lava fountains from the South East crater, are repeated with a certain consistency. Unfortunately, the bad weather of the last few weeks […]

Have you ever done … the Tour of Etna?

Posted on 24/03/2025 (24/03/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Have you ever done the Tour of Etna? No, not as a cycling or car race … but a very long excursion all around the immense body of the volcano. In fact, this adventure is for a few “brave” people, for those who are really used to walking in all grounds and climate conditions and […]

Five delicious Mt Etna foods you should taste

Posted on 03/03/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is not only a large active volcano but also an immense territory that “feeds” on lava and climate. Thanks to the mix of these elements (the lava soil, the sun, the underground waters) the countryside at the foot of the mountain is extremely fertile and produces delicious raw materials every year. They can […]

Etna Eruption 2025: a brand new lava flow

Posted on 24/02/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

No, it wasn’t over yet. It never is until Etna decides so. In the last hours of February 23, the eruptive activity triggered by the fracture at the base of Bocca Nuova Crater – which seemed to have ended the previous day – has regained strength. Although the main lava flow appears almost stopped, a […]

Etna: the eruption is going to end, but …

Posted on 20/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Twelve days after the start of the effusive eruption on Mount Etna, it seems that everything is about to end. The phenomenon started from a fracture at the base of the Bocca Nuova crater on February 8, has produced – in almost two weeks – a long lava flow that has descended on the western […]