excursion Archives

About Etna bloggers …

Posted on 11/07/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is such a special mountain that it is impossible not to tell about it. And today everything is told on social media, on video channels, on mobile phones. But if you have to describe something, and do it well, you have to use words before pictures. Etna deserves many words, many stories intertwined […]

Underground Catania … a walk through ancient lavas

Posted on 27/06/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists come to Sicily to admire many things, including two unmissable ones: the sea and Mount Etna. They would very much like to be able to experience the volcano while it is in full swing and, even if with fear, they often wonder what it feels like to be “inside” an eruption. The good news […]

Mountain Bike Trails on Mt Etna

Posted on 06/06/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If every now and then, walking through the woods of Mount Etna, you see a path apparently demolished, do not come to quick wrong conclusions. Take a good look. You will see that maybe it is just a path created naturally by dry branches, fallen leaves and some wooden boards to delimit its perimeter. What […]

About Troina and Borgo Giuliano

Posted on 30/05/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It only takes 23 minutes by car to get to Borgo Giuliano, from Troina. Twenty-three minutes, many bends, mountains, woods and clearings of the innermost and less known Sicily. The village of Borgo Giuliano is in the district of Messina, Troina in the district of Enna. In the middle … farms, farmhouses, wonderful landscapes. If […]

Eruption hunters: how to admire this event safely

Posted on 22/05/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Once upon a time, volcanoes erupted suddenly. In the sense that no one could – or knew – how to recognize the signs. Over the centuries, people living on volcanoes have learned to understand their “language”. The farmers, the forest guards simply by walking and living on the territory understood when something changed. When the […]