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Mount Etna’s woods: not only hiking

Posted on 19/08/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

A good part of the immense body of Mount Etna, especially below a certain altitude, is occupied by woods and small forests. These are places protected by the action of the Regional Park of Mount Etna and therefore not yet disfigured by the hand of man … although every year a portion of them risks […]

Five things you shall NOT ask Etna people

Posted on 12/08/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a “multitasking” volcano, beautiful and attractive, with enormous possibilities for outdoor activities and itineraries that – inevitably – attract crowds of tourists every year. Visitors from all over the world especially love to go hiking: to the summit craters, into the woods, in the caves and, of course, they love when there […]

Voragine Crater: master and commander!

Posted on 04/08/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The month of August opens with one of the most spectacular paroxysms seen in some years. Always him, the Voragine crater, the new surprising protagonist of Mount Etna show! After a very long period of silence and false quiet, this crater (which opened in 1945) took the stage until yesterday dominated by the young South […]

Discover Giarre and its monuments … including Etna!

Posted on 22/07/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Giarre is a delightful town located halfway between Catania and Taormina, with an airy and colourful historic core that includes neoclassical churches, Art Nouveau buildings and… a volcano! Exactly. Mount Etna is fully included among the “urban” monuments of Giarre, because from the town’s central square the view of the great volcano is so full […]

Birches of Etna and the climate change

Posted on 15/07/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

They arrived in Sicily “against their will”, transported by the conditions created thanks to the immense glaciations that hit Europe between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago. The birch trees of Mount Etna remained even after the ice retreated, finding an ideal habitat on this gigantic volcano which today reaches 3369 meters high. The Scandinavian plants […]