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The Lachea Island, cradle of Mt Etna

Posted on 28/02/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

Tourists who come to Aci Trezza looking for the romantic stories of 1800s novel I Malavoglia immediately fall in love with it. The Lachea island shows itself there, among the dark stacks, in front of the village’s small port. Lachea looks at Aci Trezza and Aci Trezza looks at it too, and celebrates it. The […]

Mt Etna’s mud volcanoes and “Maccalube”, what difference?

Posted on 21/02/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

Each volcano has a life path with which it was born and then slowly dies. Very often these two extreme moments in the existence of these unique mountains are given by secondary phenomena. That is, by eruptions without fire but with other materials. Sometimes they are boiling water jets, the famous geysers. Other times they […]

Discovering Cesarò and the Nebrodi lakes

Posted on 07/02/2022 (07/02/2022) by Grazia Musumeci

Would you like to admire one of the most beautiful views over Mt Etna? Then go to Cesarò, in the district of Messina. In the immediate outskirts of the town, on the road to San Teodoro and the Nebrodi lakes, you will see the town around the ruins of its castle. And Etna behind […]

The Musarra Rock

Posted on 31/01/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

If you live or visit the eastern flank of volcano Mount Etna, where the great valley Del Bove opens, you will certainly spot Rocca Musarra, the Musarra Rock. It rises from the volcano’s “belly” like a scary giant tooth, surrounded by century-old cold lavas. The Musarra rock is a silent witness of important history. In […]

Ragalna and its territory

Posted on 24/01/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

As many other small towns in Sicily, Ragalna has the magic of a “double” name. One is connected to a tale, another to real history. It comes from the Arabic, meaning probably “the palace (rach) of Hanna”. But if you are a romantic soul you might prefer, instead, the meaning of raag (desert of stones) […]