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A recipe of dessert with Mt Etna’s berries

Posted on 15/08/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

An experience to do, when you come to visit Mount Etna, is that of collecting berries. You can do it anywhere, at any time during the late summer period (August-September). Even while you are on an excursion with your guides. What matters, however, is that you are on foot and that you want to take […]

Celebrating August 15th on Mt Etna

Posted on 08/08/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

On August 15th in Italy it’s Ferragosto Day. Ferragosto is a holiday invented by Cesar August, who granted rest and entertainment to his fellow citizens during the period in which he moved to his summer villas. Thus, the “Ferie Augustee“, since Roman times, are an unmissable event in Italy. The feast was later “adopted” by […]

Mt Etna’s summer festivals

Posted on 17/07/2022 by Grazia Musumeci

If you find yourself in these summer days at the foot of the great volcano Mount Etna, surely you have already booked your place at the beach or your excursion at high altitude. The charm of this restless mountain is the main attraction of the territory of Eastern Sicily. Surely, going to explore its woods, […]

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 […]