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Etna: itinerary for the “lazy”

Posted on 14/07/2025 by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna is a gigantic volcano, a mountain with a thousand facets, and certainly not easy to tackle. To hike its trails, you need to be prepared, energetic, and fit. But if you’re lazy, if you’re one of those who prefers to sleep and dream rather than walk… don’t give up hope. There are even […]

Have you ever done … the Tour of Etna?

Posted on 24/03/2025 (24/03/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Have you ever done the Tour of Etna? No, not as a cycling or car race … but a very long excursion all around the immense body of the volcano. In fact, this adventure is for a few “brave” people, for those who are really used to walking in all grounds and climate conditions and […]

An ancient city called “Etna”

Posted on 17/02/2025 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

We know that the name “Etna” comes from an ancient Greek word “aithne” which means “heat, burn”. Today we know that an entire territory, almost as large as a province, takes its name from Etna, meaning not only our volcano but a community with very specific culture and traditions. People have often wondered if a […]

Valle del Bove, from oxen to goats

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

Valle del Bove (the Ox Valley) is a landscape that everyone knows and everyone loves. It is that large depression that opens on the eastern flank of Mount Etna, the result of an ancient collapse (or landslide) dating over 60,000 years ago, when the primitive volcanic building of Etna – called Mt Trifoglietto – collapsed […]

“At the foot” of the craters: Maletto, Milo, Randazzo

Posted on 18/11/2024 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

What is it like to live “under the crater” of a large active volcano? So scary even just to say, because it lets you imagine frightening scenarios. Lava destroying houses, fire raining from the sky, or the terrible end of Pompeii under the ash of Vesuvius. But here on Etna things are not so apocalyptic! […]