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Nicolosi Pinewood. Picnic in a crater

Posted on 27/01/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If we can experience the feeling of having a picnic in a crater, today, or eating and walking at the foot of beautiful pine trees inside a natural basin, this is due to a terrible event of the 17th century. The side eruption of Monti Rossi hit the place and the people, detroying many lives. […]

The most beautiful lava shores in Sicily

Posted on 20/01/2020 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Beaches are charming, all of them, all the time. Not just because they make us imagine summer, warm days, holidays, but also because they remind us of the hard work nature has been doing – during the centuries – to give us such a precious present. And if beaches mean all that, beaches made of […]

The challenge of the Montagnola

Posted on 21/10/2019 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The name (Montagnola means “small mountain”) seems to indicate something small, and even looking at it from the base of the cableway it looks like just a small hill. But you must reach it and, above all, face it to understand that the Montagnola is not small nor simple at all. Instead, this gigantic hill […]

Discovering the Chiancone of Praiola

Posted on 14/10/2019 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Halfway between Acireale and Taormina, in the municipal area of ??Giarre, there is a very special beach: Praiola. The beach is very small and narrow, even uncomfortable, as it is formed by large round stones and in continuous movement due to the frequent sea storms. But people love to bathe here, despite the difficulties, and […]

Torre del Filosofo and the Laghetto Crater

Posted on 07/10/2019 (21/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

A continuously changing landscape, Mount Etna has erased many places in time and others -that are still visible today- maybe tomorrow won’t be there anymore. The lava eruptions and the ashes change the top territory all the time and make these places a mix of geography, history and myth. We shall lead you to the […]