Etna Archives

About the Museum of Etna in Nicolosi

Posted on 25/07/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

If you have to choose a destination, among the many that Mount Etna offers, this summer do focus on Nicolosi. Not only because this town is the gateway to the best views over Etna’s southern flank, not only for the local beauties, but also because there is the seat of Etna Volcanological Museum. Which is […]

About Etna bloggers …

Posted on 11/07/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is such a special mountain that it is impossible not to tell about it. And today everything is told on social media, on video channels, on mobile phones. But if you have to describe something, and do it well, you have to use words before pictures. Etna deserves many words, many stories intertwined […]

Mystery … or just a tale … of the “volcano of Riposto”

Posted on 04/07/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

It was 2009 when a study conducted by the School of Geology of the University of Catania observed something strange off the port of Riposto. A very deep coast suddenly “returned to the surface” with a compact shape, typical of a hill or a mountain, and then collapsed again. A cone, in short, a real […]

Explaining Etna’s new eruption which has just ended

Posted on 16/06/2022 (16/06/2022) by Grazia Musumeci

The last weird eruption of Mount Etna ended like that … suddenly, on June 12th. Exactly one month after its beginning, on 12th May. Then, the north flank of the South East Crater split in several places, letting out a long lava flow. “Weird” eruption not because it was unexpected or anomalous but because the […]

The most dangerous volcano in Sicily is …

Posted on 12/06/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

Sicily is a land of volcanoes: active, sleeping, extinct … there are so many! Of course we do know the most famous ones: Mount Etna, Mount Stromboli and the island of Vulcano. We usually do not think of the “others”, especially underwater ones: they are six, at least, and very close to the Sicilian coasts. […]