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Mount Etna Eruption 2020: Etna, a weird eruption inside the Voragine

Posted on 12/02/2020 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

It has been going on for 5 months but only today it is really showing itself. The eruption taking place inside the Central crater of Etna has something fascinating and anomalous. In fact, this eruption started inside the hole called Voragine, by a small pit crater that – from September – has been emitting lava […]

Discovering the western side of Mt Etna

Posted on 10/02/2020 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Ask anyone who has already been on Mt Etna what was his/her favourite place. The answer will probably be: the Silvestri craters, the views from the Citelli Shelter, Piano Provenzana’s ski tracks. Very few will say they loved the western side of the volcano. The side of Bronte, Adrano, Maletto. No ski tracks, on this […]

Sicily, six ideas for your winter holiday

Posted on 03/02/2020 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Sicily, the real summer paradise! A pearl of beauty, sun and sea. But because of this idea, in the summer it is too crowded. Walking among so many sweaty people in the heat is not nice and the visit to a monument can become a bad adventure. Besides, Sicily in the summer is also very […]

Timpa di Acireale, a walk on a fault

Posted on 13/01/2020 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

How many times have you heard of the famous “faults”, that is the portions of land – parts of our planet – that sliding on each other cause more or less powerful earthquakes? Sicily is a complicated and vast system of faults. They multiply around and above the volcano, Mt Etna, on the Ionian coast. […]

Fiume Freddo Natural Park and the tourist Port of Etna

Posted on 06/01/2020 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Along the mouth of the watercourse here known as the Freddo river rise some of the most beautiful beaches of the Sicilian Ionian coast . Several kilometers of sands that wind from the tourist port of Riposto – the Port of Etna – to the border with Giardini Naxos, formed by the lava cliffs of […]