Mount Etna, with its more than 3.300mt of height, frames the city of Catania, giving a majestic and always new spectacle every day of the year.
Just lift your eyes to admire 'a muntagna' (as the people of Catania call it) in all its splendour and, in all seasons, always wearing a different dress.
You can almost always see it water and soap, showing its vegetation mixed with lava stone, which starts from its craters and extends to its slopes and the plain of Catania, surrounded by olive groves, vineyards, pistachio groves, orange groves and all the other gold of the earth, giving its best fruits to the whole Etna province.
It is possible to be enchanted, in the mild Sicilian winter, by a volcano that shows off its white mantle giving a romantic snowy vision that allows families and enthusiasts to play with it.
Sometimes it gets serious and mumbles, but even in this case it offers a spectacle of tongues formed by lava visible as far as the coast that wrap and enchant its inhabitants and strangers who have come to bring a greeting to its majesty.
The mountain is surrounded by the Etna villages and if you wish to plan a short trip out of town, a romantic dinner or with your family, the villages on the slopes of Etna offer a variety of landscapes and flavours that are always different.
You can decide to visit Bronte, a village famous for the production of pistachio and while you reach the village for a breakfast or a green snack, you will find yourself surrounded by the plants of this fruit that grow on rocky ground and that tell the strength and determination of all the Sicilian people that "grows and ripens even when the ground is uneven and full of pitfalls", even if it is precisely those differences that make the Sicilian territory and the Sicilians unique.
Among the ethnic villages to visit we find Pedara with a large playground dedicated to children and a square surrounded by pizzerias, bars and restaurants. Another town that deserves to carve out an evening of your holiday is Nicolosi that with its famous and always crowded pizzerias (just for their quality), you can, especially in summer, go to get some fresh air.
