Mount Etna’s summer place 3: Mount Maletto
Summer is coming to an end, together with August the heat and the good weather are leaving us. But it is still too early to get bitter, you can still make many beautiful excursions…
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Why Mount Etna is always a safe place
Would you take a child to visit an active volcano? We do, because Mount Etna is one of the safest volcanoes in the world. And also because it is served by competent, experienced guides…
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Etna on eruption, on August 13th night
Surprising as only Mount Etna can be ... it gives, on the eve of the August 15th Midsummer Festival, an eruption that almost no one expected. The last paroxysmal event had occurred in May…
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Mt Etna gave birth to “the lord of rings”
To see a gas ring is a special event, because it is also very rare, on a volcano. However, Mount Etna is not just any volcano and even in this it manages to upset…
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Mount Etna’s “almost perfect” 1879 eruption
In 1879 Mount Etna "split" on two different sides and a sudden double eruption took the countryside and the cities by surprise. It was not an extraordinary event, but surely it had been centuries…
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Etna, ten years as UNESCO World Heritage
Our volcano, Mount Etna, is part of the UNESCO world heritage list, that is, it is one of the natural treasures to be protected forever. It has been delivered to humanity as an absolute…
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Mount Etna’s 1865 eruption from Sartorius Craters
Today the Sartorius Hills, or Sartorius Craters, are one of the many tourist destinations on the northern side of Mount Etna. Harmless black hills, surrounded by a wood of cheery birch, chestnut and oak…
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Etna, new eruptive show but … behind “closed doors”!
The people of Etna do not consider the volcano as an inanimate thing, but as a living being. They call it a “she”, a “mum”, and not surprisingly. In fact, this mountain seems to…
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Mount Etna and “top alert level”: what happened?
Between Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May 2023, the district of Catania experienced a few hours of intense turmoil. A red top alert level appeared in many media and on various sites and social…
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Labour Day at Murazzo Rotto of Randazzo
Perhaps not everyone knows that Sicily, for a short period of its history, had independence aims that have recently returned to the fore. To calm those aims, the island obtained a special statute that…
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