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Exploring Etna. Will you walk or go by jeep?

Posted on 31/07/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

And you? Are you part of the trekking team or the jeep team? By now the battle is open and the discussions are almost everywhere. The only point of agreement seems to be to refuse, however, both quads and motocross bikes. But otherwise each faction remains convinced of its own way of exploring a volcano […]

Mount Etna’s summer place 2: from Cerrita Wood to Casa Calabresi

Posted on 16/07/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Our second suggestion for the summer on Mount Etna focuses totally on the eastern flank, in the section where it “climbs over” the ridge towards the northern flank. Here, above the towns of Milo and Fornazzo, splendid still intact woods extend. They offer fresh shade and perfumes on the hottest days of the year. At […]

Etna, ten years as UNESCO World Heritage

Posted on 25/06/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Our volcano, Mount Etna, is part of the UNESCO world heritage list, that is, it is one of the natural treasures to be protected forever. It has been delivered to humanity as an absolute marvel to respect. The strange thing is not that it has been one for ten years now, but that they waited […]

Mount Etna’s summer place 1: Simeto River

Posted on 18/06/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists arriving in Sicily almost always look for river Alcantara, and only river Alcantara. As if beyond the famous “river of the gorges” there was nothing else. Yet the Simeto river, which cuts the eastern part of the island diagonally to flow between Catania and Syracuse, is one of the most interesting and beautiful water […]

In the Etna villages of Vena and Presa

Posted on 11/06/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Etna villages of Vena and Presa have also become a “internet joke” some time ago. This is thanks to the bizarre idea of the municipality of Piedimonte Etneo to arrange the signs of the municipal medical lab close to those of the two villages. “Vena” in italian means “vein” and “Presa” can be also […]