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One of the most important aspect of Mediterranean diet is the quality of the ingredients used. The result is that ingredients are fresh, often produced in land, tasty and fragrant.
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Eruption of 1989

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4-5 September Mount Etna is continuing its eruptive activity…here the history of 2007 eruption.

For all the night, in the depression on the east flank of the crater of S-E, is in course an intense and spectacular strombolian activity with lava fountains that catch up a height of several hundreds of meters. A small tap of lava heads towards the Bove Valley. Moreover present is an ash column of approximately two kilometers that go towards east on Fornazzo and Milo.

It’s for the ash that it has been decided, beginning from 1:00 Am of this night, the closing of the airport of Catania.

Here the list of all news about the 2007 eruptions:

• Eruption of the Etna September 2007
• Latest eruption of Mount Etna on April-May 2007: A new activity from the south-east crater
• New Mt Etna eruption on 2007: What a Show!!!
• Finished the effusive phase of the Etna eruption of 2007
• Mt Etna eruption 2007 continues
• Special Etna excursion to see live eruption of 2007!!
• Mount Etna new eruption of 2007

Here the list of all pictures of this eruption

September is coming so, after my last trip in Capo D’Orlando, I’ve decided to do another mini-trip to go in the private home of my girlfriend’s granny in Baia del Silenzio near Brucoli.
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Improvement n°1 - Website theme
First of all there is a new theme in the website with news header pictures and a more usable navigation:

• The section Volcano with more info about Mount Etna: History, Geology, Eruptions, Video
• The section Etna park with more info on nature, lakes, lava rock, wines, history and castles

Improvement n°2 - Legend tutorial
I’d like to start a “Tutorial” about the legends and traditions on the volcano. You can read the legend of the famous “Empedocle” and other. In the next week i’ll add a complete section dedicated to the famous “Sicilian visitors” like Goethe etc…written by my friend Giancarlo.

Improvement n°3 - Free travel guide e-book
There is also available the new free e-book “Sicily as you never seen before“. A 100 page PDF travel guide about Sicily to help you travel better and save up to 5% The guidebook is available by subscribing to the news-letter form in the right side of the website

Improvement n°4 - News aggregator
We have launched a news aggregator section about Sicily (there are more than 30 different news sources that update the page daily) with an archive of the last month best facts and news. You can also subscribe to the RSS

If you lost the latest news you can read here:

• 2007/08/09 Archive
• 2007/07/27 Archive
• 2007/07/13 Archive
• 2007/06/30 Archive

Improvement n°5 - Travel tools
To give you a more clear view of all Sicily experiences i’ve created a new page called “Sicily travel tools” where find the main info.

New contents added

• New Etna excursions programs
• List of all the best Sicilian museums near the Etna territory
• Useful info to play Golf in Sicily

Ideas for the future

• In the past days i’ve send requests to verify the value of Travel 2.0 tools to gain trust etc…with visitor. I want to use them and see what’s up…so stay tuned
• Starting from October me and my girlfriend Valeria will do a weekly report (Video, Pictures and podcast) about every single attractions to visit in the Etna territory
• I want to share other people Sicilian experiences so I’d like to do an “Interviews” section with some “Opinion leaders” about Sicily

Thank you for reading this post and continue enjoing it!!

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Is you need more travel info on Sicily during your travel, the best thing to do is to be always updated on what’t up around the island.

Here you are the latest news of the week…

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