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5 unusual facts about Mount Etna


Acqua Fuori Dal Ring

The film was primarily shot in the Librino neighborhood of Catania in the public housing projects, with additional scenes filmed on the Black Lava Fields of Mount Etna.

Corsican hare

It is common and widespread on Sicily where it occurs from sea-level up to 2400 metres on Mount Etna.

Giovanni Quagliata

Giovanni's works – paintings, frescoes and large canvasses – were famously displayed in the galleries and churches of Messina, but due to earthquakes from Mount Etna and wartime bombings, few have survived to the present day.

Micropterix trinacriella

It is only known from the area near the northern shore of Sicily, as well as in the surrounding of Mount Etna.

Monica Larner

She was among the first American wine writers to bring attention to Italian indigenous grapes and up-and-coming wine regions such as Sicily's Mount Etna.


Sotra Patera

It has been compared with terrestrial volcanoes such as Etna, Laki and volcanic cones near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen

He then gave his attention to an exhaustive investigation of the volcano of Mount Etna, in Sicily, and carried on the work with some interruptions until 1843 including with Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters.


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