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Mt Etna on eruption on November 12th evening

Posted on 12/11/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The eruption that everyone had been waiting for for two days finally started on the afternoon of November 12th. After a morning of intense degassing and a drastic increase in volcanic tremor, Mount Etna gave signs of maximum agitation starting from 3 pm. Two hours later the new paroxysm began which is still ongoing in […]

Halloween mask “Etna style”: here’s how to create it

Posted on 30/10/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Even if it doesn’t seem like it, Mount Etna is also a place of magic linked to mysteries. There are stories of ghosts of queens who lost their slipper here, there are stories of mysterious sounds heard in Valle del Bove, and for some years mysterious sculptures have appeared among the most beautiful birch trees. […]

Walking in the woods, with or without a stick?

Posted on 23/10/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

What’s more relaxing than a nice walk in the woods? Nothing, if you have that unbridled desire to immerse yourself in nature with every fiber. The woods are almost always an arduous path, given that they are in the mountains or in any case at high altitudes. If the woods are part of the territory […]

Etna, eruptions of 1923 and 1928

Posted on 15/10/2023 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The two eruptions that marked the 1920s on Etna are not connected to each other. In fact, they took place on two different sides and with a five-year break between each other. But they are linked by the danger and the feeling of disaster that they both brought with them. Rare sensations, because although Mount […]

Mount Etna’s autumn place 2: Piano Provenzana’s “dagala oasis”

Posted on 02/10/2023 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We told you what dagalas are on these pages some time ago, and if you remember well there was something magical in that story. Like there is always something magical in each of these oases sown among the lava expanses. For the month of October, our suggestion for the ideal autumn place is right among […]