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If you only have time to complete a single leg of the Genista Trail, one could argue that this would be the one to choose. With an old-school train ride, biking or hiking along the Alcantara River, picturesque historic towns, and winery tastings, this stretch has something for everyone. If you are starting out from […]

Pineta Ragabo si trova a più di 4.500 piedi (1.400 metri) sul livello del mare, quindi per la maggior parte di questa quarta tappa ti dirigerai in discesa attraverso vigneti storici ora abbandonati alla natura selvaggia e attraverso un campo di lava creato da un’eruzione del 1923. Avrai la prima occhiata a una delle stazioni […]

Perhaps the wildest of the Genista Trail legs, this third section of the route crosses the area of Mt. Etna’s slopes that were the site of a sudden and violent eruption in 1928 that destroyed the historic village of Mascali but spared Sant’Alfio; the hike sets off from the town’s small commemorative chapel built in […]

There is no denying you’re on the slopes of an active volcano during the second leg of the Genista Trail that runs through the scenic Valle del Bove, tracing the paths of two 20th-century lava flows that threatened the high-altitude hamlets of Milo (in 1950-51) and Fornazzo (in 1979). You’ll follow a historic mule track […]

The first leg of the Genista Trail takes off from Nicolosi—among the most urbanized areas on Mt. Etna’s slopes and one of two ski resorts on the mountain—and winds its way through thick holm oak and chestnut woods to Zafferana Etnea, a popular holiday destination due to its cool summer temperatures. The route climbs to […]

“Etna giveth and Etna taketh away” is the mantra of the locals who have lived in symbiosis for millennia with this imposing volcanic peak—one of the most active in the world—that looms over Sicily’s eastern coastline. Its uninterrupted belching of ash and dust for the past 500,000 years has coated Mt. Etna’s slopes in a fertile mantle of volcanic […]