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Smoke and ash and steam on Mount Etna

A grey-black desert of old lava and ash, bleak and lunar and strangely beautiful, with the Mediterranean shimmering far below. Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe; its summit sits somewhere above 3,300m and rearranges itself with every eruption. It is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, continuously grumbling, smoking and steaming.

Mount Etna

A grey-black desert of old lava and ash, bleak and lunar and strangely beautiful, with the Mediterranean shimmering far below. Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe; its summit sits somewhere above 3,300m and rearranges itself with every eruption. It is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, continuously grumbling, smoking and steaming.

Biking down lava and ash

Funivia dell’Etna

The Funivia dell’Etna, the Etna cable car that takes you from the Rifugio Sapienza base at around 1,900m up to roughly 2,500m, where the trees give out and the world turns to ash. First opened in 1966, then repeatedly buried and torn apart by eruptions in 1971, 1983, 1985 and 2001, and rebuilt every time (the current cabins arrived in 2023).

Silvestri Craters

Located near the Rifugio Sapienza on the southern slope, these extinct craters were formed during an eruption in 1892. They are easily accessible by car and are among the most visited sites on the volcano.

Volcanic landscape with pylons

A grey-black desert of old lava and ash, bleak and lunar and strangely beautiful, with the Mediterranean shimmering far below. Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe; its summit sits somewhere above 3,300m and rearranges itself with every eruption. It is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, continuously grumbling, smoking and steaming.

Old and new pylons on Etna

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