Etna Archives

Dagale of Etna, “miracle-oases from Allah”

Posted on 08/01/2023 (21/01/2025) 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 […]

Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023

Posted on 01/01/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Will it be a spectacular year like 2021? Or a year of relative calm, as was the “old” 2022?Mount Etna is always unpredictable and always ready to surprise and deny forecasts. But for the moment it seems to have welcomed the new year 2023 with a new and respectable eruption. An eruption that actually started […]

Celebrating New Year’s Day with Etna liqueurs

Posted on 27/12/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

New Year’s Eve is just a few days away and the sparkling wine is already chilled in the fridge. But for once try to go beyond the traditions and … toast the new year with something different. Like, for example, a liqueur from Mount Etna. The area around the great Sicilian volcano has always been […]

The Christmas 2018 Eruption

Posted on 19/12/2022 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano in constant transformation. It has changed its face dozens of times over the millennia and still does. Volcanologists have identified a constant mutation in the “behaviour” of the mountain, which once every 10 or 15 years or so erupts in a different way. In fact, it alternates periods of calm […]

Trecastagni, Etna’s balcony

Posted on 28/11/2022 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

When Mount Etna is erupting and you are looking for a spectacular place to take pictures – even comfortably, while enjoying a coffee or the cool of the evening – go to Trecastagni. From this delightful village located at the foot of the southern flank of the volcano, Etna can be admired from various points. […]