Mt Etna’s summer festivals
If you find yourself in these summer days at the foot of the great volcano Mount Etna, surely you have already booked your place at the beach or your excursion at high altitude. The…
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About Etna bloggers …
Mount Etna is such a special mountain that it is impossible not to tell about it. And today everything is told on social media, on video channels, on mobile phones. But if you have…
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Mystery … or just a tale … of the “volcano of Riposto”
It was 2009 when a study conducted by the School of Geology of the University of Catania observed something strange off the port of Riposto. A very deep coast suddenly "returned to the surface"…
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Underground Catania … a walk through ancient lavas
Tourists come to Sicily to admire many things, including two unmissable ones: the sea and Mount Etna. They would very much like to be able to experience the volcano while it is in full…
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Explaining Etna’s new eruption which has just ended
The last weird eruption of Mount Etna ended like that ... suddenly, on June 12th. Exactly one month after its beginning, on 12th May. Then, the north flank of the South East Crater split…
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The most dangerous volcano in Sicily is …
Sicily is a land of volcanoes: active, sleeping, extinct ... there are so many! Of course we do know the most famous ones: Mount Etna, Mount Stromboli and the island of Vulcano. We usually…
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Eruption update: Etna keeps on breaking on the east side
INGV ---------- RELEASE OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY of 7 June 2022 --- ETNA The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Etneo Observatory, reports that new fractures have been observed at the base of the northern…
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Mountain Bike Trails on Mt Etna
If every now and then, walking through the woods of Mount Etna, you see a path apparently demolished, do not come to quick wrong conclusions. Take a good look. You will see that maybe…
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About Troina and Borgo Giuliano
It only takes 23 minutes by car to get to Borgo Giuliano, from Troina. Twenty-three minutes, many bends, mountains, woods and clearings of the innermost and less known Sicily. The village of Borgo Giuliano…
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Etna, brand new fracture at the 12-may eruption scenario
On the morning of May 29th, a new element changes the scenario of the eruption that began last May 12 at the north base of the South East Crater of Mt Etna. A new…
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