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Mount Etna’s autumn place 1: Schiena dell’Asino

Posted on 03/09/2023 (03/09/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

Schiena dell’Asino (Donkey’s Back) is one of the most recommended routes on Mount Etna. Because it has a medium-low difficulty and is suitable for all types of hikers. Furthermore, it allows you to admire spectacular panoramas with little effort, both towards the coast and towards the summit craters of Etna. We suggest it as the […]

Mount Etna’s summer place 3: Mount Maletto

Posted on 27/08/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

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 on Etna. Even with the freshest air, indeed … much better! … you can go and explore extraordinary places. And we […]

Etna on eruption, on August 13th night

Posted on 14/08/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

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 2023, and since then the volcano had remained in apparent calm. The tremor vacillated continuously, but the gases did not find […]

Exploring Etna. Will you walk or go by jeep?

Posted on 31/07/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

And you? Are you part of the trekking team or the jeep team? By now the battle is open and the discussions are almost everywhere. The only point of agreement seems to be to refuse, however, both quads and motocross bikes. But otherwise each faction remains convinced of its own way of exploring a volcano […]

Mt Etna gave birth to “the lord of rings”

Posted on 23/07/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

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 every rule. And not one, but ten, fifty, a hundred gas rings are thrilling tourists and locals right now, on the […]