Etna Book

A story that began half a million years ago and today rises more than three thousand three hundred meters high, dominating a landscape redrawn with every new eruption. Welcome to Etna, a continent inhabited by a million people, dreamed of and visited by tourists and scholars. A multifaceted entity that is both volcano and mountain, nymph, god, male and female—or perhaps neither one nor the other. To each their own Etna, one might write, paraphrasing Sciascia. And so it is in this travel journal too, where, between a granita and a glass of wine, walks, caves, breathtaking scenery, and expanses of lava sea are revealed—landscapes that also illuminated Pasolini’s films and inspired Battiato’s music.

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