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Three ideas for your … Easter with Etna!

Posted on 25/03/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Easter is the “gate to spring”, it is the celebration that throughout the Western world introduces the most beautiful season of the year. Here in the Etna area, Easter is a celebration linked to the sacredness of religion and the rituals in churches or squares (processions, sacred representations). So, people dedicate to nature and spring […]

Two mini-itineraries: from Etna to Carnival

Posted on 03/02/2024 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

We have often told you about the magic of Carnival in the Etna area and also about the culinary specialties of this season that you can easily taste in the towns around the volcano. Today we want to take advantage of the mild climate of this crazy winter and let you do a bit of […]

Mount Etna’s winter place 1: the mysterious Muses Valley

Posted on 18/12/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

If you are looking for a particular place to admire in winter on our volcano, Mount Etna, they will suggest dozens of beautiful locations, where the snow accumulates, where the woods with the colours of the cold season are combined with the lovely mountain shelters… But we suggest, instead, a place that few people know: […]

November 2023: how is Mt Etna changing?

Posted on 27/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

But … what is Etna up to? What’s happening to our volcano? After having accustomed us to a precise “standard” with its historical and recent eruptions, now it seems it is experimenting. From 2018 to today it has changed its behavior several times and the latest news, from 12 November 2023, are these mini “Strombolian” […]

Mt Etna’s animals 2: have you met the wild cat?

Posted on 06/11/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It is not easily seen, in fact it is so shy that many believe it is actually a legend. But has anyone ever really seen the “wild cat of Etna”? Yet this feline not only exists but is the “king” of the territory, precisely on the basis of its furtive, rapid and hidden movements. Very […]