Valle del Bove Archives

Mount Etna from above: helicopter experience

Posted on 30/08/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The excitement of climbing an active volcano is connected to what you shall see as you trek, step by step, along its mountain paths. Mount Etna already offers this experience thanks to the many hiking tours, mountain bike rides, also by going on a horse or donkey ride. If you do not love adventure, there […]

Once upon a time, the Gino Menza Refuge

Posted on 19/07/2021 (09/09/2024) 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, […]

Valle del Bove, a natural basin against eruptions

Posted on 06/05/2019 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The place we now call the Valle del Bove (the valley of the ox) is actually the still visible testimony of a huge geological tragedy that occurred about 10,000 years ago. At that time Etna was a much higher volcano than now, conical in shape, that at a certain point exploded, halving its size and […]

Mt Etna’s new side eruption. Shall we be worried?

Posted on 24/12/2018 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna is not new to this kind of “surprises”. The volcanologists themselves say that “you never know what’s going on in the pot” and never like today, on Christmas Eve 2018, the volcano has shown it to us residents and to the whole world. […]

Mt Etna, side eruption concerning Valle del Bove

Posted on 24/12/2018 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Catania informs us that the current one, started at 11 am on 24 December 2018, is a real side eruption, with “the opening of several eruptive holes starting from the base of the New South East Crater, towards Serra Giannicola “, an area located inside the depressive […]