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Mount Etna’s woods: not only hiking

Posted on 19/08/2024 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

A good part of the immense body of Mount Etna, especially below a certain altitude, is occupied by woods and small forests. These are places protected by the action of the Regional Park of Mount Etna and therefore not yet disfigured by the hand of man … although every year a portion of them risks […]

The Voragine: is the eruption coming to its top?

Posted on 30/06/2024 (22/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

With the statement issued by the INGV (Geo-Volcanology Institute) on 29th June, the eruption at Mt Etna’s Voragine crater, one of the largest among the summit ones, seems to be coming to its top. “It seems”, we must say, because Etna does its own thing, and almost never respects the parameters and signals that it […]

Discovering … Paternò!

Posted on 24/06/2024 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Paternò is a place of mystery. Not in the strictest sense of the term, but it is a city with a thousand faces and none of them seems to be the real one. Powerful independent fiefdom at the time of the Normans (but it had been inhabited since the times of the Siculians, who founded […]

Patrick Brydone, the man who “discovered” Etna

Posted on 14/04/2024 (21/01/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Some piedmont towns (Zafferana Etnea) even dedicated a road to him, today’s researchers are deeply grateful to him. Who is this man? Patrick Brydone, the man who “discovered” Mount Etna. Or rather one of the first to let the world discover this volcano, intended precisely as a source of geological and naturalistic studies. The world […]

Three ideas for your … Easter with Etna!

Posted on 25/03/2024 (22/01/2025) 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 […]