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Excursion to Timparossa wood

Posted on 23/08/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

We had already met Timparossa refuge, during our blog trips around the Etna area. We cannot help but talk about this place more than once, because it is beautiful. And especially in some seasons it offers a unique show of the nature. Timparossa is a beech forest that embraces a small hut-shaped refuge, built in […]

Mt Etna’s new top record, the South East Crater

Posted on 16/08/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

We had written about it last week, and South East Crater – SEC – is the protagonist once again. It has a new unique record, today: it is the highest top of Mt Etna. This happened at the beginning of August, in the middle of the warmest and most tiring Sicilian summer. Mount Etna produced […]

Discovering Riposto and “Mt Etna’s beaches”

Posted on 02/08/2021 (23/02/2025) 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 (23/02/2025) 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 […]

Once upon a time, the Gino Menza Refuge

Posted on 19/07/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Once upon a time there was Gino Menza Refuge … a small alpine hut in the “belly” of an active volcano. A fairy tale that ended under meters and meters of lava, which brought with it memories of a whole era. Because once Etna was not as we know it today. It was always active, […]