Tour duration: 8 hours;

Departure time: at your convenience;

Pick up point: your port of call in Catania, Naxos and Messina

Enjoy two must see places in one day with our best selling excursion.

– Pick up at your hotel in Catania

– Visit of an abandoned stone quarry.

– Visit and hiking on the big Crateri Silvestri.

– Explore a lava tube with hard hats and flashlights.

– Enjoy typical Sicilian products such as honey, wine, pistacchio and liquors.

– Stop at Zafferana Etnea to taste a genuine Sicilian pizza.

– Spend the afternoon with a free walking tour of Taormina, visit the theatre, the cathedral, the botanical garden and more.

The tour includes:

• Car or minivan with air conditioning,
• Insurance,
• English or Spanish speaking driver/guide,
• Gas,
• Parking fees,
• Tolls,
• Taxes.

The tour does not include:

• Hotel accommodation,
• Meals,
• Tickets,
• Archaeological park/museum guide
• Everything not expressly mentioned on “the tour includes”

  Wit a height of 3320 meters above sea level and more than forty kilometers in diameter, Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe.

  Its name comes from the Greek word “Aitna” meaning “to burn” but in the past was also called Atma Ǧabal Siqilliya (mount of Sicily) or Mons Gebel, combining the Latin and Arabic etymologies for the word mountain that led to the Sicilian name Mungibeddu, but locals refer to Etna with the name of “‘a Muntagna” (The Mountain).

  Etna is the center of many legends of Greek and Latin mythology but not only. It is said that, inside the volcano, the Greek god Hephaestus had his forge in which he prepared the arrows used as weapons by Zeus and that he had tamed the fire demon Adranos driving him out of the volcano.

  Etna has inspired several literary works from ancient times to the present day, from Hesiod to Aeschylus’ tragedy The Etna, now lost and the play The Cyclops by Euripides. In modern times, the poet of the Spanish Baroque Góngora wrote Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, inspired by the legend of the shepherd Aci and the nymph Galatea and Ercole Patti setting his novel, A beautiful November, in Zafferana, a small village in the foothills of Etna,

  Pier Paolo Pasolini shot four movies on Etna, while in 2008, Coldplay have used the Etna as the set of their video clips Violet Hill, the first single from their fourth album Viva la vida.