The best tours On Mount Etna
Volcanoes have been fascinating human beings for thousands of years; some of the most iconic destructive events in our planet's history are connected to some massive Eruptions, like that of the Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883, killing 36000 people and the one of Mount Vesuvio in Italy in 79 a.c. But not all volcanoes are killers. Some volcanoes, due to their magma's chemical composition, do not pose a threat to humans. On the island of Sicily in the Mediterranean sea, there is the huge Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet and one of the safest. This volcano rises from the depth of the ocean to an altitude of over 3300 meters. The last eruption was on the night of January 19th, 2021. Until the beginning of the XX century, Etna was exploited for the thick resin produced by the Pines and the production of ice stored inside big volcanic caves. That was all. The relation between the volcano and Sicilians was purely a "working" one. But in the fifties, a