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In the belly of Mt.Etna, the caves of the Teri Brothers

Posted on 27/03/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The first time you read the news in the newspaper it may surprise you. The second time it fascinates you. Then it becomes a habit, but a pleasant habit, not a boring one. You get used to extraordinary adventures when they become a real life path, a daily style, a… family affair! This could be […]

A Mt Etna spring tourist trip 1: Favare of Maletto

Posted on 19/03/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

With this article we want to inaugurate some very specific tourist suggestions, suitable in our opinion for every month and season of the year around our volcano. And in the first month of spring, we want to tell you about a perfect location for this season: the Favare of Maletto. In fact, in the past […]

How to prepare for a winter trekking on Mt Etna

Posted on 20/02/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a volcano so fascinating and full of itineraries that exploring it and experiencing it is a pleasure in every season of the year. You don’t necessarily have to wait for spring or summer to go trekking on its paths, you can also plan it in winter. Prudence must be the basis of […]

The great snow storm of February 2023

Posted on 12/02/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The coldest season on Mount Etna has always been January and February. In these two months, temperatures are usually lower than the average. Sometimes in exceptional cases the cold wave extends until March. With the progress of climate change, however, new phenomena come to change the habits of the territory of the great Sicilian volcano. […]

Mardi-Gras all around Mt Etna

Posted on 06/02/2023 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

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 period of penance. This festival is influenced by even more ancient echoes, which recall the Roman “bacchanalia” but then in the […]