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Five things you might not know about winter on Mt Etna

Posted on 15/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We want to tell you five things you (maybe!) don’t know about the Sicilian cold season, especially the Etna winter. Mount Etna is the highest mountain on the whole island, so it is normal that it is the place where the seasons are more pronounced. And winter, when it arrives, arrives at its best! But […]

Dagale of Etna, “miracle-oases from Allah”

Posted on 08/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

When they take you to explore the beauties of Mount Etna you will see many of them. But maybe you won’t notice if your guide doesn’t point them out to you. They are the “dagale”, islands of green surrounded by black lava. Small oases that seem to have been spared from the fury of the […]

Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023

Posted on 01/01/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Will it be a spectacular year like 2021? Or a year of relative calm, as was the “old” 2022?Mount Etna is always unpredictable and always ready to surprise and deny forecasts. But for the moment it seems to have welcomed the new year 2023 with a new and respectable eruption. An eruption that actually started […]

The Christmas 2018 Eruption

Posted on 19/12/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano in constant transformation. It has changed its face dozens of times over the millennia and still does. Volcanologists have identified a constant mutation in the “behaviour” of the mountain, which once every 10 or 15 years or so erupts in a different way. In fact, it alternates periods of calm […]

Five things you might not know about Christmas on Mt Etna

Posted on 11/12/2022 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna at Christmas is a show like few others in the world. You won’t always find snow there, because it often arrives in January, but even without the skiing season, experiencing the end-of-year celebrations on this volcano is exciting. There are many traditions that intertwine with the excursions and which allow you to get to […]