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The rocky beaches of Stazzo and St Tecla

Posted on 03/01/2022 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Stazzo and St Tecla are seaside villages that belong to the town of Acireale. The wide territory of this municipality makes these villages rise a few kilometers away from the main town. They almost look independent towns themselves. From Stazzo, you see Acireale so far away! But centuries of history and a common geography do […]

New Year’s Day at Ragabo Refuge, Etna

Posted on 27/12/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Enjoy New Year’s Day in a special way. Or, if not that very day, enjoy the beginning of the new year 2022 with a nice experience in the snow of the woods around Ragabo Refuge. This lovely hut-shaped building, looking so much like a alpine house, fits perfectly into the high pine trees forest, in […]

Discovering Aci St Antonio

Posted on 20/12/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

If you want to live thoroughly Mount Etna you must also learn about its territory. A whole universe around it. Among so many big and small towns living on Etna’s products and tourism, we will tell you about Aci St Antonio (district of Catania). This is one of the nine “Aci Territory” towns, all belonging […]

Christmas at Linguaglossa

Posted on 13/12/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The gate to the cold northern flank of Mount Etna, and to its ski tracks, Linguaglossa is the capital of winter tourism in the Catania area. We already wrote about this lovely town, since it is a place many people love to visit, also in the summer. Gourmets also love Linguaglossa very much. Here you […]

Etna North, itineraries among woods and Middle Ages

Posted on 22/11/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The north side of Mount Etna is the coldest and most “alpine”. The temperatures remain balanced or low for most of the year, on this side. It is no coincidence that the ski and snowboard schools are located here. The north side of Etna consists of ancient craters, very dense woods, glaciers and villages of […]