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Easter with a Mt Etna view, three ideas

Posted on 03/04/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is certainly the ideal place to spend a splendid Sicilian spring. Our great volcano, especially during Easter week, becomes a source of itineraries rich in colours and scents, as well as flavours. If you’re lucky you might even witness some “spring” eruptions… but in the absence of volcanic spectacle, any excursion to Etna […]

In the belly of Mt.Etna, the caves of the Teri Brothers

Posted on 27/03/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The first time you read the news in the newspaper it may surprise you. The second time it fascinates you. Then it becomes a habit, but a pleasant habit, not a boring one. You get used to extraordinary adventures when they become a real life path, a daily style, a… family affair! This could be […]

A Mt Etna spring tourist trip 1: Favare of Maletto

Posted on 19/03/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

With this article we want to inaugurate some very specific tourist suggestions, suitable in our opinion for every month and season of the year around our volcano. And in the first month of spring, we want to tell you about a perfect location for this season: the Favare of Maletto. In fact, in the past […]

Mt Etna’s 1792 eruption

Posted on 13/03/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

There are paintings in memory of this event which, due to its violence and spectacularity, at the end of the 18th century, really made one think of the Apocalypse. While in France the new vision of the modern world was forming after the bloody revolution, in Bourbon Sicily there were moments of fear. In 1792, […]

Acireale and the Timpa lava plateau

Posted on 05/03/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The people of Acireale solemnly call it “the” Timpa. But to be exact this escarpment that flows into the sea is part of a system of different “timpas”, that is “cliffs” – in Sicilian – formed by lava rocks. However, the one of Acireale is certainly among the most majestic and for this reason it […]