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Etna: the great Voragine eruption started

Posted on 04/07/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Institute of Volcanology (INGV) statement took a while to arrive, but in the end it declared what all of us inhabitants – and lucky tourists – were already seeing. The explosive activity of the Voragine crater, one of the four summits of Etna, increased dramatically during the afternoon and evolved into a lava fountain […]

The Voragine: is the eruption coming to its top?

Posted on 30/06/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

With the statement issued by the INGV (Geo-Volcanology Institute) on 29th June, the eruption at Mt Etna’s Voragine crater, one of the largest among the summit ones, seems to be coming to its top. “It seems”, we must say, because Etna does its own thing, and almost never respects the parameters and signals that it […]

Discovering … Paternò!

Posted on 24/06/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Paternò is a place of mystery. Not in the strictest sense of the term, but it is a city with a thousand faces and none of them seems to be the real one. Powerful independent fiefdom at the time of the Normans (but it had been inhabited since the times of the Siculians, who founded […]

Etna, crater Voragine “sings” again!

Posted on 17/06/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

World War 2 had just ended when the Voragine crater opened at the top of Mount Etna. It was October 1945 and, suddenly, a portion of the thousand-year-old Central Crater – already flanked by the North East Crater – collapsed, creating a hole (pit crater) which in turn began an intense eruptive activity. This new […]

Five mistakes you should never make on Etna

Posted on 10/06/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If you are a well-informed and passionate tourists, you will now know everything about Mount Etna, the highest and most famous active volcano in Europe. This gigantic mountain, which dominates the eastern coast of Sicily, is a universe of natural and historical beauty that contains urbanized landscapes, centuries-old woods, examples of Mediterranean but also Nordic […]