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Etna lights up the summer of 2026 with a new eruption

Posted on 26/06/2026 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna’s new eruption appears to have begun in the early afternoon of June 26, 2026, when a slow lava flow began moving toward the Valle del Leone from a fracture that opened around 3,000 meters at the base of the Northeast Crater. Volcanology guides wrote on social media that “it appears to be […]

Mount Etna and the pride of being UNESCO Heritage

Posted on 22/06/2026 (22/06/2026) by Grazia Musumeci

June 21st should be a date to celebrate in Sicily. Or at least in the Catania area. In fact, on June 21, 2013—thirteen years ago— Mount Etna was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Those present at the proclamation describe an entire assembly standing up to applaud, and the applause lasted several minutes. The […]

Mystery on Mt Etna: who is the “lava man”?

Posted on 15/06/2026 by Grazia Musumeci

The Lava Man climbed anyway. Despite the warnings, the alerts, the doubts. He ascended and descended at the right times, without risking even a second. Just a couple of hours later, the crater of Etna cracked and collapsed right before his eyes, releasing a river of lively lava, heading downstream. What if he had been […]

Etna Castles 2: Motta St Anastasia

Posted on 09/06/2026 by Grazia Musumeci

Motta St Anastasia was built around a “volcanic neck”, a huge column of solidified magma that typically comes to light when the walls of an ancient volcanic conduit collapse. Here, we are just 35 km away from Mount Etna, and the eruption that created this “neck” is likely linked to the life of the great […]

Running the “vertical marathon” on Mount Etna

Posted on 01/06/2026 (03/06/2026) by Grazia Musumeci

Did you know that you can even run a marathon on a volcano? Nothing strange, you might say; it’s not the first time you’ve run in a mountain, and a volcano is a mountain – after all. But the one to be run on Mount Etna (scheduled for June 13th) isn’t your typical marathon: it’s […]