The articles
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How to prepare for a winter trekking on Mt Etna
Mount Etna is a volcano so fascinating and full of itineraries that exploring it and experiencing it is a pleasure in every season of the year. You don't necessarily have to wait for spring…
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The great snow storm of February 2023
The coldest season on Mount Etna has always been January and February. In these two months, temperatures are usually lower than the average. Sometimes in exceptional cases the cold wave extends until March. With…
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Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna
The Mardi-Gras Carnival all around Mount Etna, as well as almost everywhere in Italy, dates back to the medieval Spanish tradition. That is, it granted three days of celebration without rules before the Lent…
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About Mount Etna’s eruption of 1669
It was a hundred and twenty-two days of apocalypse on earth. And the chronicles handed down from father to son still speak of it as one of the greatest eruptions ever recorded in the…
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How to make Arab Bread and how to eat it
Over the centuries, the territory of Mount Etna has unfortunately lost almost every trace of Arab domination. A not very long historical period (it lasted about two centuries) which left wonderful works of art…
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Five things you might not know about winter on Mt Etna
We want to tell you five things you (maybe!) don't know about the Sicilian cold season, especially the Etna winter. Mount Etna is the highest mountain on the whole island, so it is normal…
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Dagale of Etna, “miracle-oases from Allah”
When they take you to explore the beauties of Mount Etna you will see many of them. But maybe you won't notice if your guide doesn't point them out to you. They are the…
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Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023
Will it be a spectacular year like 2021? Or a year of relative calm, as was the "old" 2022?Mount Etna is always unpredictable and always ready to surprise and deny forecasts. But for the…
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Celebrating New Year’s Day with Etna liqueurs
New Year's Eve is just a few days away and the sparkling wine is already chilled in the fridge. But for once try to go beyond the traditions and ... toast the new year…
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The Christmas 2018 Eruption
Mount Etna is a volcano in constant transformation. It has changed its face dozens of times over the millennia and still does. Volcanologists have identified a constant mutation in the "behaviour" of the mountain,…
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