Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna
The Mardi-Gras Carnival all around Mount Etna, as well as almost everywhere in Italy, dates back to the medieval Spanish tradition. That is, it granted three days of celebration without rules before the Lent…
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How to make Arab Bread and how to eat it
Over the centuries, the territory of Mount Etna has unfortunately lost almost every trace of Arab domination. A not very long historical period (it lasted about two centuries) which left wonderful works of art…
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Five things you might not know about winter on Mt Etna
We want to tell you five things you (maybe!) don't know about the Sicilian cold season, especially the Etna winter. Mount Etna is the highest mountain on the whole island, so it is normal…
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Dagale of Etna, “miracle-oases from Allah”
When they take you to explore the beauties of Mount Etna you will see many of them. But maybe you won't notice if your guide doesn't point them out to you. They are the…
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Mount Etna’s first eruption in 2023
Will it be a spectacular year like 2021? Or a year of relative calm, as was the "old" 2022?Mount Etna is always unpredictable and always ready to surprise and deny forecasts. But for the…
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The Christmas 2018 Eruption
Mount Etna is a volcano in constant transformation. It has changed its face dozens of times over the millennia and still does. Volcanologists have identified a constant mutation in the "behaviour" of the mountain,…
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Five things you might not know about Christmas on Mt Etna
Etna at Christmas is a show like few others in the world. You won't always find snow there, because it often arrives in January, but even without the skiing season, experiencing the end-of-year celebrations…
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Lake of Nicito, life and death of a volcanic lake
If today you walk through Santa Maria di Gesù square in Catania, among large shady trees, crazy traffic and concrete buildings, you would hardly believe that once, here, there was only a huge expanse…
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Trecastagni, Etna’s balcony
When Mount Etna is erupting and you are looking for a spectacular place to take pictures - even comfortably, while enjoying a coffee or the cool of the evening - go to Trecastagni. From…
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Sciara del Follone, the long eruption of 1614-1624
There was a period, in the mid-17th century, when seeing Etna erupting had become so normal that the volcano with the flame on top appeared everywhere. It was in the frescoes of the churches,…
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