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Summer is … Etna cherries

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

In the great variety of environments that make up the volcano Mount Etna you can find a bit of everything: the rocky desert, the forest, the orchard. And if many today identify Etna with fruits such as apples and prickly pears, they should know that there is so much more. For example, there are delicious […]

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 summer place 1: Simeto River

Posted on 18/06/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists arriving in Sicily almost always look for river Alcantara, and only river Alcantara. As if beyond the famous “river of the gorges” there was nothing else. Yet the Simeto river, which cuts the eastern part of the island diagonally to flow between Catania and Syracuse, is one of the most interesting and beautiful water […]

In the Etna villages of Vena and Presa

Posted on 11/06/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Etna villages of Vena and Presa have also become a “internet joke” some time ago. This is thanks to the bizarre idea of the municipality of Piedimonte Etneo to arrange the signs of the municipal medical lab close to those of the two villages. “Vena” in italian means “vein” and “Presa” can be also […]

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 […]