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Can you see Mt Etna from Malta? (how, where, when)

Posted on 10/03/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe but it is also one of the highest mountains in the Mediterranean. This is proven by the fact that it is visible from almost every corner of Sicily, from the Aeolian Islands … including Stromboli, and that it can be clearly photographed from Calabria and even from […]

Five delicious Mt Etna foods you should taste

Posted on 03/03/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is not only a large active volcano but also an immense territory that “feeds” on lava and climate. Thanks to the mix of these elements (the lava soil, the sun, the underground waters) the countryside at the foot of the mountain is extremely fertile and produces delicious raw materials every year. They can […]

Famous people on Etna: Plato

Posted on 24/02/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Today Mount Etna is a highly touristic place. A volcano that, despite being continuously active, allows humans to exploit and enjoy it at their leisure. The establishment of the Regional Park, in the 1980s, gave a further boost to mass tourism among woods, skiing and extinct – or not! – craters. But in ancient times, […]

An ancient city called “Etna”

Posted on 17/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

We know that the name “Etna” comes from an ancient Greek word “aithne” which means “heat, burn”. Today we know that an entire territory, almost as large as a province, takes its name from Etna, meaning not only our volcano but a community with very specific culture and traditions. People have often wondered if a […]

Valle del Bove, from oxen to goats

Posted on 03/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Valle del Bove (the Ox Valley) is a landscape that everyone knows and everyone loves. It is that large depression that opens on the eastern flank of Mount Etna, the result of an ancient collapse (or landslide) dating over 60,000 years ago, when the primitive volcanic building of Etna – called Mt Trifoglietto – collapsed […]