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Where to taste Mount Etna’s Mustard

Posted on 21/12/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

You are on Mount Etna during the Christmas period and … what will you do? Maybe a nice trekking on the snow of our magnificent volcano, or you will taste the local delicacies. A territory like Etna offers so much in every season and sometimes even beyond. For Christmas, delicious desserts can be found almost […]

Mount Etna’s winter place 1: the mysterious Muses Valley

Posted on 18/12/2023 by Grazia Musumeci

If you are looking for a particular place to admire in winter on our volcano, Mount Etna, they will suggest dozens of beautiful locations, where the snow accumulates, where the woods with the colours of the cold season are combined with the lovely mountain shelters… But we suggest, instead, a place that few people know: […]

Lava fountains and explosions, is there a difference?

Posted on 11/12/2023 (11/12/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a wonderful sight that everyone would like to admire, one time or another. It is not the classic volcano that produces long lava flows – except in rare cases – but it expresses the characteristics of many volcanoes all together. The volcanologists of Catania say they are “lucky” to have such an […]

Etna through Enna’s fog

Posted on 04/12/2023 (04/12/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is the most fascinating volcano in Europe and also the highest, which allows it to be seen from different angles and locations. There are many “balconies over Etna”, located in villages or towns that surround the mountain, which offer spectacular views to visitors. In autumn in particular we could suggest the suggestion of […]

Mount Etna, great eruption on December 1st

Posted on 01/12/2023 (01/12/2023) by Grazia Musumeci

The mystery is solved! Mount Etna’s strange behavior in the last two weeks was revealed in a new, grandiose eruptive paroxysm on the afternoon of December 1st, 2023. The phenomenon began around 5pm, with small explosions from the usual South-East crater which initially did not look suspicious… given that the volcano had been repeating these […]