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The best “autumn-colour routes” in Sicily

Posted on 01/11/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The period of the red leaves (or “feuillage”) is that short period of time in year when the leaves change colour before dying and falling. These are the days of the “autumn colours” (video), which in certain northern nations fill the eyes with beauty for weeks. In Sicily, on the other hand, the cold seasons […]

Explore Mount Etna with a “green tour”

Posted on 25/10/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is not just a very interesting volcano. It is mainly a mountain, a large one, with different natural environments. On the mountain, nature shows so many aspects that in the 1980s they founded the Regional Park of Etna, in order to protect it. But the Park itself is not enough to grant a […]

From the “autumn beach” Pozzillo to Mt Etna

Posted on 18/10/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Pozzillo is a small fishermen village, a hamlet of Acireale and the last part of its municipal territory before entering Riposto. It used to be just another little rocky beach, till a few months ago everything changed. The British newspaper The Guardian found out this place and put it – the only Italian location – […]

Company trips, “team building” together on Mount Etna

Posted on 11/10/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The workplace is almost as important as home … because it is the place where you spend your time, as well as with your family. And if this environment is heavy, difficult or repulsive, even the work of the individual suffers. And it reflects in the entire production. The two years in which, due to […]

Observatory Pizzi Deneri

Posted on 27/09/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Attention! Do not confuse this observatory with an astronomical one, though you can still see wonderful stars, from here. The Observatory Pizzi Deneri is a volcanic monitoring center and scientists use it, in fact, to study Mount Etna and its behaviour. It was not supposed to exist, right here, this observatory. Not on this north […]