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The Polar Grotto, a new discovery on Mt Etna

Posted on 06/09/2021 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Is the Polar Grotto the new Frost Grotto? On Mount Etna there is the most southern perennial glacier in Europe. It has been known for a very long time and it is also known that it is a place to be protected. Despite that, mass tourism has managed to violate this corner of paradise as […]

Mount Etna from above: helicopter experience

Posted on 30/08/2021 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The excitement of climbing an active volcano is connected to what you shall see as you trek, step by step, along its mountain paths. Mount Etna already offers this experience thanks to the many hiking tours, mountain bike rides, also by going on a horse or donkey ride. If you do not love adventure, there […]

Discovering Riposto and “Mt Etna’s beaches”

Posted on 02/08/2021 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

For a long time the main tourist “gates” to Mount Etna were Catania – with its airport and station – and Taormina. The large tourist crowds settled in these two locations so to discover Etna by excursions. It has been twenty years, now, since also Riposto has joined them as a tourist gate to Etna, […]

How do people live near an active volcano?

Posted on 26/07/2021 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

They ask us, all the time. Out relatives from abroad, our friends who never came to visit us, those who look at our photos or read the news. Mount Etna erupts, Stromboli explodes, Vulcano has sulfur steams, Vesuvius sometimes makes the ground shake. How can we do that? How can we live near an active […]

From Mt Etna to Ancient Noto

Posted on 11/07/2021 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Imagine you have had a great time on Mt Etna, the most beautiful volcano in Europe. Imagine you have admired its woods, lavic deserts, smoking craters. Maybe you have also admired some eruptive phenomena! Now, your eyes filled with wonder, you are ready to admire something else. Something historic, maybe. Some architecture. Come with us, […]