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Valle del Bove, a natural basin against eruptions

Posted on 06/05/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The place we now call the Valle del Bove (the valley of the ox) is actually the still visible testimony of a huge geological tragedy that occurred about 10,000 years ago. At that time Etna was a much higher volcano than now, conical in shape, that at a certain point exploded, halving its size and […]

The Best Season To Visit Mount Etna

Posted on 08/04/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

What is the best season in the year to visit Mt. Etna, with its villages and towns? What is the best season to do some open air sports over there? Every season is a good season to come and visit this great volcano, because Mt.Etna changes every month. We can only suggest, after the new […]

Wine of Etna and Sicilian Wines

Posted on 11/03/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Sicily is fertile land, a rich, beautiful soil! It is not by chance that this island has always been a desire for many peoples, and many have conquered it, owned and exploited it for agriculture, even before that for trade or fishing. The volcanic soil that is found almost everywhere in the region, the many […]

Mt. Etna’s side eruptions

Posted on 28/02/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Those who have lived at the foot of Mt. Etna for more than thirty years certainly have seen at least one. And when they saw it, it was really scary. We are speaking of the side eruptions, those that suddenly break the ground on one of the sides of the volcano and begin to emit […]

Discovering the Nocellara olive oil of Mount Etna

Posted on 23/02/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

In order to discover the Nocellara oil, we must enter the wonderful unique microcosm that is Mount Etna. Here we find different climates and different expressions of the vegetation that adapts to these climates. We find the vines, which give some of the best wines of Sicily, the oaks and birches, the beautiful chestnut and […]