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Mount Etna and “top alert level”: what happened?

Posted on 20/05/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Between Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May 2023, the district of Catania experienced a few hours of intense turmoil. A red top alert level appeared in many media and on various sites and social networks announcing a “violent explosive eruption” of Mount Etna, with related absolute bans on climbing to high altitudes. The situation raised […]

Etna Spring Tourist Trip 3: Piano Fiera

Posted on 15/05/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

You can spend a beautiful May Sunday, if you wish, at Piano Fiera, on the southern slope of Mount Etna. It is a few kilometers away from Adrano and Paternò, on the warmest and sunniest side of the volcano and yet this area also offers complete relaxation full of shade and coolness. And it allows […]

Celebrating Mother (Etna)’s Day

Posted on 08/05/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

On the second Sunday of May, almost everywhere in the world, Mother’s Day is celebrated. And usually a mother is seen as a loving, sweet, kind, pretty figure. How could all of these tender qualities apply… to an active volcano? Yet it is so. For the people of Catania and its surroundings, the volcano Mount […]

Pedara, a volcanic land of Gods

Posted on 24/04/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The legend – perhaps linked to a story so ancient as to have been lost – tells that the place where Pedara stands today was dedicated to Jupiter, the father of all the gods. And he was celebrated by a magnificent temple, an “ara” which was impossible not to admire. The lands “at the foot […]

Etna Spring Tourist Trip 2: the Forty-Hour water stream

Posted on 16/04/2023 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The beauty of a high and ancient volcano like Mount Etna is also manifested in its “mountain” characteristics. Indeed, unlike other more arid volcanoes, Etna reaches heights that allow it to have well-defined seasons and well-defined phenomena linked to them. The moment of snowmelt is one of those fascinating phenomena which, thanks to the volcanic […]