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Your Etna guides: how to choose them

Posted on 17/11/2025 (17/11/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

If you’ve decided to tackle Mount Etna with a guide, you’ve made the wisest and most rewarding choice. Although Etna seems like any other mountain, it’s much more treacherous because—being an active volcano—it presents unforeseen challenges that are difficult to manage. Only a truly expert and knowledgeable person of the area can help you face […]

Photos to autumn leaves: how and where on Mt Etna

Posted on 09/11/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Foliage season (from the French “feuillage”) is the time of year when the trees turn yellow or red just before losing their leaves. It is a very specific moment in autumn, when different conditions intertwine—temperature, rainfall, humidity—favoring the die-off of seasonal leaves. Every mountain has a foliage season, and on Mount Etna, which by its […]

Etna Chestnuts and How to Eat Them

Posted on 03/11/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Do you love chestnuts and also enjoy outdoor walks in a breathtaking setting? Nothing could be easier than harvesting these delicious fruits on Mount Etna in autumn. Our great volcano is transformed during this season. Fascinating colors fill the countryside, and the many chestnut groves that grow on every side of the mountain offer their […]

“Eerie” locations on Mt Etna at All Souls’ Weekend

Posted on 27/10/2025 (27/10/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Looking for a unique Halloween Night idea? Or are you looking for a way to spend the All Saints’ and All Souls’ weekend outdoors, surrounded by the scents of the mountains? Etna is always at your disposal with its landscapes, its authentic products, its many tourist routes. On special occasions, Etna also becomes the setting […]

Mount Etna’s three districts: Messina

Posted on 20/10/2025 (20/10/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The last of the three districts overlooking Mount Etna is Messina. This one extends along half of Sicily’s northern coast, nestled between the beaches and the high mountains of Nebrodi and Peloritani. Wild nature is an integral part of the Messina area, with breathtaking landscapes and medieval villages that partly overlook the great volcano. Mount […]