volcano Archives

Cruises and Etna, two itineraries

Posted on 13/09/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Cruise ships come to Sicily all the time, today. They usually arrive at Catania, Palermo and Messina ports and let tourists enjoy the beauties of these historical cities. If you do not have enough time, you shall choose short itineraries so to admire – at least – the most important places. Mount Etna, of course, […]

The Polar Grotto, a new discovery on Mt Etna

Posted on 06/09/2021 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Is the Polar Grotto the new Frost Grotto? On Mount Etna there is the most southern perennial glacier in Europe. It has been known for a very long time and it is also known that it is a place to be protected. Despite that, mass tourism has managed to violate this corner of paradise as […]

Excursion to Timparossa wood

Posted on 23/08/2021 (09/09/2024) 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 […]

Discovering Riposto and “Mt Etna’s beaches”

Posted on 02/08/2021 (09/09/2024) 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 (09/09/2024) 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 […]