Etna

A story that began half a million years ago and currently unfolds at a height of more than 3,300 meters above sea level, overlooking a landscape that changes with each eruption. Welcome to Etna, a continent inhabited by a million people, dreamt of and visited by tourists and scholars. A multiform entity that is both a volcano and a mountain, a nymph, a god, male and female, or perhaps neither one nor the other. Paraphrasing Sciascia we could write: to each his own Etna. A truth that also applies to this travel journal where, between a granita and a glass of wine, the authors reveal the promenades, grottoes, breathtaking views and expanses of a lava sea that have illuminated Pasolini's films and inspired Battiato's music. This booklet mergers cultural tours and nature-based itineraries, combines culinary and cultural ideas with the old stories told by those who live here, allowing readers to discover that in the presence of the volcano, adventures multiply, legends intensify, and they can experience the amazement of the geological phenomena transmitted by a fountain of lava.