A round trip for all the senses Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea located in the southwest of Italy, is not only home to the highest active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna, but also has impressive cities to offer in addition to beautiful beaches. No...
The Sicilian flora is characterized by many endemic species. They make up about 10% of the island’s plant species. In this article we want to tell you about some of the special plants that grow on Etna. Because anyone who thinks Mount Etna is a barren, lifeless...
The Valle del Bove (Valley of the Ox) is a huge valley about 5 km wide and about 7 km long (37 square kilometres in total) on the eastern side of Mount Etna, facing the sea. The rims of the valley are up to 1,000 metres high and some of them drop vertically. The...
We already told you in an earlier article (Lava tubes of Etna I) how Mount Etna was formed. However, how did Sicily originate? Originally, there was sea where Sicily is today. Due to plate tectonics, or more precisely, due to the African plate sliding under the...
The eruption that kept Zafferana in suspense! This time we report in more detail on the eruption between 1991 and 1993, which scared the inhabitants of Zafferana Etnea – a small town on the eastern side of the volcano. The beginning of the eruption On December...
On the flag of the (autonomous) region of Sicily (one of the 20 regions of Italy), there is a decorated woman’s head on a red and yellow background. The flag of Sicily as we know it today goes back to the 13th century. However, the history of this symbol is much...
