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Etna on eruption, on August 13th night

Posted on 14/08/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Surprising as only Mount Etna can be … it gives, on the eve of the August 15th Midsummer Festival, an eruption that almost no one expected. The last paroxysmal event had occurred in May 2023, and since then the volcano had remained in apparent calm. The tremor vacillated continuously, but the gases did not find […]

Mount Etna’s “almost perfect” 1879 eruption

Posted on 03/07/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

In 1879 Mount Etna “split” on two different sides and a sudden double eruption took the countryside and the cities by surprise. It was not an extraordinary event, but surely it had been centuries since such an important one had occurred. The populations of the time found themselves fighting the volcano on two fronts and […]

Mount Etna’s 1865 eruption from Sartorius Craters

Posted on 29/05/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Today the Sartorius Hills, or Sartorius Craters, are one of the many tourist destinations on the northern side of Mount Etna. Harmless black hills, surrounded by a wood of cheery birch, chestnut and oak trees, families go picnic here, and hikers test the strength of their legs as they climb each crater. But so much […]

Etna, new eruptive show but … behind “closed doors”!

Posted on 22/05/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The people of Etna do not consider the volcano as an inanimate thing, but as a living being. They call it a “she”, a “mum”, and not surprisingly. In fact, this mountain seems to “have a behavior”, just like a human, and proves to be welcoming, generous, affectionate … or mischievous! Anyone who doesn’t live […]

Labour Day at Murazzo Rotto of Randazzo

Posted on 30/04/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Perhaps not everyone knows that Sicily, for a short period of its history, had independence aims that have recently returned to the fore. To calm those aims, the island obtained a special statute that binds it to Italy in an almost federal way. The few who believed in the dream of independence fought even bloody […]