etna north Archives

Observatory Pizzi Deneri

Posted on 27/09/2021 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Attention! Do not confuse this observatory with an astronomical one, though you can still see wonderful stars, from here. The Observatory Pizzi Deneri is a volcanic monitoring center and scientists use it, in fact, to study Mount Etna and its behaviour. It was not supposed to exist, right here, this observatory. Not on this north […]

Excursion to Timparossa wood

Posted on 23/08/2021 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We had already met Timparossa refuge, during our blog trips around the Etna area. We cannot help but talk about this place more than once, because it is beautiful. And especially in some seasons it offers a unique show of the nature. Timparossa is a beech forest that embraces a small hut-shaped refuge, built in […]

River Alcantara, not only Gorges

Posted on 24/08/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Gorges of River Alcantara are a real worldwide tourist attraction, today. Those who come to visit Sicily want to see them, or ask for them, all the time. Could they be wrong? How can you resist the beauty of those prehistorical lavic walls carved by the river during centuries? How can you resist those […]

Etna, the mysterious “pyramids”

Posted on 09/08/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Are there pyramids on Mt. Etna? According to some historians, mostly foreigners, yes. Research published about five years ago by a French historian, Antoine Gigal, identified forty “mysterious” buildings in the countryside at the foot of the volcano. They are very similar of the sacred buildings of Central America. Just like the Mexican square pyramids, […]