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Five ideas for starting New Year on Mt Etna

Posted on 06/01/2025 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

After having given the usual resounding welcome to the new year, we find ourselves in the first week of January already planning the near future. Whether you are a permanent resident or a tourist, when you have the privilege of living at the foot of a volcano like Etna all your choices will also revolve […]

Volcanoes and mandarins: the Holy Cribs of Etna

Posted on 23/12/2024 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The making of nativity scene (Holy Crib) is a very ancient tradition in Sicily. One of the classic traditions that has remained most alive, ever, even resisting the “invasion” of Santa Claus and the famous Christmas tree. Once upon a time, for Sicilians, the Holy Crib was the center of the Christmas celebration – as […]

Halloween mask “Etna style”: here’s how to create it

Posted on 30/10/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Even if it doesn’t seem like it, Mount Etna is also a place of magic linked to mysteries. There are stories of ghosts of queens who lost their slipper here, there are stories of mysterious sounds heard in Valle del Bove, and for some years mysterious sculptures have appeared among the most beautiful birch trees. […]

Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna

Posted on 06/02/2023 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The Mardi-Gras Carnival all around Mount Etna, as well as almost everywhere in Italy, dates back to the medieval Spanish tradition. That is, it granted three days of celebration without rules before the Lent period of penance. This festival is influenced by even more ancient echoes, which recall the Roman “bacchanalia” but then in the […]

Catania, the tour of good food

Posted on 14/06/2021 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Have you just disembarked from your cruise ship at Catania’s harbour? Or have you just landed at the local airport? Well, resist to the desire of swimming into the blue Sicilian sea, do not hurry immediately to the top of the volcano Etna. Take your time, relax, smell jasmines and … Sicilian food! Take a […]