Etna Archives

Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna

Posted on 06/02/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Mardi-Gras Carnival all around Mount Etna, as well as almost everywhere in Italy, dates back to the medieval Spanish tradition. That is, it granted three days of celebration without rules before the Lent period of penance. This festival is influenced by even more ancient echoes, which recall the Roman “bacchanalia” but then in the […]

About Mount Etna’s eruption of 1669

Posted on 30/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It was a hundred and twenty-two days of apocalypse on earth. And the chronicles handed down from father to son still speak of it as one of the greatest eruptions ever recorded in the modern era. That of 1669, on the southern slope of Mount Etna, still remains today a grandiose natural event, devastating but […]

How to make Arab Bread and how to eat it

Posted on 23/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Over the centuries, the territory of Mount Etna has unfortunately lost almost every trace of Arab domination. A not very long historical period (it lasted about two centuries) which left wonderful works of art and engineering in a large part of Sicily. These works are still there, in western Sicily, but here on the east […]

Five things you might not know about winter on Mt Etna

Posted on 15/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We want to tell you five things you (maybe!) don’t know about the Sicilian cold season, especially the Etna winter. Mount Etna is the highest mountain on the whole island, so it is normal that it is the place where the seasons are more pronounced. And winter, when it arrives, arrives at its best! But […]

Dagale of Etna, “miracle-oases from Allah”

Posted on 08/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

When they take you to explore the beauties of Mount Etna you will see many of them. But maybe you won’t notice if your guide doesn’t point them out to you. They are the “dagale”, islands of green surrounded by black lava. Small oases that seem to have been spared from the fury of the […]