The articles
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Five things you might not know about Christmas on Mt Etna
Etna at Christmas is a show like few others in the world. You won't always find snow there, because it often arrives in January, but even without the skiing season, experiencing the end-of-year celebrations…
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Lake of Nicito, life and death of a volcanic lake
If today you walk through Santa Maria di Gesù square in Catania, among large shady trees, crazy traffic and concrete buildings, you would hardly believe that once, here, there was only a huge expanse…
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Trecastagni, Etna’s balcony
When Mount Etna is erupting and you are looking for a spectacular place to take pictures - even comfortably, while enjoying a coffee or the cool of the evening - go to Trecastagni. From…
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Etna, on November 27th a new vent opens
Photo Credits - Fabrizio Zuccarello - Nov 27, 2022 After an intense day of bad weather, the clouds part in the evening revealing a surprise that the Etna volcano has given to its population:…
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Sciara del Follone, the long eruption of 1614-1624
There was a period, in the mid-17th century, when seeing Etna erupting had become so normal that the volcano with the flame on top appeared everywhere. It was in the frescoes of the churches,…
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A Etna recipe: how to enhance chestnut honey
A delicacy you often find on Mount Etna, thanks to the presence of many chestnut trees and the tradition of honey that has been handed down around the volcano for centuries. Chestnut honey is…
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Five things you (maybe) do not know about Etna’s autumn
Autumn is a very beautiful season in the mountains. And since Mount Etna is a large and wide volcano, as high as a real mountain, the autumn season has an incredible development here. You…
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Halloween on Mount Etna
If you love the new fashion of terror, Halloween, which fits perfectly with some local traditions - such as the Day of the Dead Souls - you can celebrate fear and mystery even on…
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The 2002 earthquake
On October 29th, 2022, a good slice of the towns on the eastern side of Etna will remember the twentieth anniversary of an event that few others in Italy will remember. That same day,…
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Mount Pomiciaro and Mount Zoccolaro
There is some confusion on Mount Etna regarding these two "mountains", Mount Pomiciaro and Mount Zoccolaro. There is a Monte Pomiciaro Road that climbs towards Monte Zoccolaro but it is not clear to many…
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