excursion Archives

Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023

Posted on 01/01/2023 (09/09/2024) 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 […]

The Christmas 2018 Eruption

Posted on 19/12/2022 (09/09/2024) 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 […]

Five things you might not know about Christmas on Mt Etna

Posted on 11/12/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna at Christmas is a show like few others in the world. You won’t always find snow there, because it often arrives in January, but even without the skiing season, experiencing the end-of-year celebrations on this volcano is exciting. There are many traditions that intertwine with the excursions and which allow you to get to […]

Lake of Nicito, life and death of a volcanic lake

Posted on 03/12/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If today you walk through Santa Maria di Gesù square in Catania, among large shady trees, crazy traffic and concrete buildings, you would hardly believe that once, here, there was only a huge expanse of lava. And that even before the lava arrived, a lake existed right here. A lake that wasn’t even supposed to […]

Trecastagni, Etna’s balcony

Posted on 28/11/2022 (09/09/2024) 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. […]