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Discovering Riposto and “Mt Etna’s beaches”

Posted on 02/08/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

For a long time the main tourist “gates” to Mount Etna were Catania – with its airport and station – and Taormina. The large tourist crowds settled in these two locations so to discover Etna by excursions. It has been twenty years, now, since also Riposto has joined them as a tourist gate to Etna, […]

How do people live near an active volcano?

Posted on 26/07/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

They ask us, all the time. Out relatives from abroad, our friends who never came to visit us, those who look at our photos or read the news. Mount Etna erupts, Stromboli explodes, Vulcano has sulfur steams, Vesuvius sometimes makes the ground shake. How can we do that? How can we live near an active […]

From Mt Etna to Ancient Noto

Posted on 11/07/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Imagine you have had a great time on Mt Etna, the most beautiful volcano in Europe. Imagine you have admired its woods, lavic deserts, smoking craters. Maybe you have also admired some eruptive phenomena! Now, your eyes filled with wonder, you are ready to admire something else. Something historic, maybe. Some architecture. Come with us, […]

Mt Etna back again with violent explosions

Posted on 20/06/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna replicates the show concluded just 48 hours earlier with noteworthy explosions. It does so on June 19 with an incredible and unexpected outburst. The lava fountains start quietly around 8 pm and in a very short time they level up becoming very high explosions and pouring blazing boulders on the flanks of the […]

Mount Etna’s new show on 11-17 June

Posted on 16/06/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Etna resumes an activity that has never really been interrupted. After a few days of “well-deserved rest” between one paroxysm and another, the show starts again. And every time more, without rules. As in the case, for example, of the eruption that has been affecting the area of ??the South East Crater since 11 June […]