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Timpa di Acireale, a walk on a fault

Posted on 13/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

How many times have you heard of the famous “faults”, that is the portions of land – parts of our planet – that sliding on each other cause more or less powerful earthquakes? Sicily is a complicated and vast system of faults. They multiply around and above the volcano, Mt Etna, on the Ionian coast. […]

Fiume Freddo Natural Park and the tourist Port of Etna

Posted on 06/01/2020 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Along the mouth of the watercourse here known as the Freddo river rise some of the most beautiful beaches of the Sicilian Ionian coast . Several kilometers of sands that wind from the tourist port of Riposto – the Port of Etna – to the border with Giardini Naxos, formed by the lava cliffs of […]

Linguaglossa, the “north gate” to Mount Etna

Posted on 02/12/2019 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The name will make you smile. It sounds like a cartoon character with a long, thick tongue, but behind this name there is a whole story – and a cultural background – of a small town that is very important for the economy of the Catania district area. Linguaglossa, in fact, is the “north gate” […]

Mount Etna, time of mushrooms

Posted on 17/11/2019 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is one of the few places in Sicily where beautiful woods still stand and persist. Unfortunately, summer fires often damage several of them, but above all on the north side and in the west the pine forests, beech woods and broom woods remain to protect the soil and what it produces. In Sicily, […]

Mount Etna: On the snow with your children

Posted on 11/11/2019 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Could you ever deny a child a run on the snow, the tumbles on that soft white coat? How could you spend the winter without let them feel the wonderful contact with this magical element of nature? But bringing children to the snow, for you adults, is not just fun; there is also a considerable […]