Etna Archives

Labour Day at Murazzo Rotto of Randazzo

Posted on 30/04/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

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 binds it to Italy in an almost federal way. The few who believed in the dream of independence fought even bloody […]

Pedara, a volcanic land of Gods

Posted on 24/04/2023 (21/09/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

The legend – perhaps linked to a story so ancient as to have been lost – tells that the place where Pedara stands today was dedicated to Jupiter, the father of all the gods. And he was celebrated by a magnificent temple, an “ara” which was impossible not to admire. The lands “at the foot […]

Mt. Etna’s eruption of 1843 and the Big Explosion

Posted on 08/04/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

Can the world end in just 11 days? Maybe not, for many of us, but for those who experienced the November 1843 eruption of Mount Etna up close, that must have been the sensation. And for some of them the world really ended that week. A brief but violent, intense event that left a trail […]

Easter with a Mt Etna view, three ideas

Posted on 03/04/2023 (03/04/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is certainly the ideal place to spend a splendid Sicilian spring. Our great volcano, especially during Easter week, becomes a source of itineraries rich in colours and scents, as well as flavours. If you’re lucky you might even witness some “spring” eruptions… but in the absence of volcanic spectacle, any excursion to Etna […]

A Mt Etna spring tourist trip 1: Favare of Maletto

Posted on 19/03/2023 (19/03/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

With this article we want to inaugurate some very specific tourist suggestions, suitable in our opinion for every month and season of the year around our volcano. And in the first month of spring, we want to tell you about a perfect location for this season: the Favare of Maletto. In fact, in the past […]