Etna Volcano ‘a Muntagna or Mungibeddu is the highest active volcano in Europe, the most famous Italian volcano and one of the biggest in the world. It is currently 3329 m high, though this varies with summit eruption. Etna offers a spectacular landscape, you can get very close to the craters and photographing the charming landscape of the volcano. In times of activities you can take shots spectacular eruptions and lava flows instead, from a safe distance.
Etna volcano have always scared, amazed and liberated the imagination of people’s but also people owe mount Etna a lot, if only fertile land on the slopes, where the best pistachios are grown.
The tremors of earthquakes, the smoke, the ashes, the fire, and the molten rock represent the tormented soul of Mountain of Fire - Etna.
Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east of sicily, Italy between the cities of Messina and Catania. It lies between African Plate and Eurasian Plate.
There are many anecdotes, stories and legends about these fascinating and threatening works of Etna volcano. According to Greek mythology, in the interior of Etna, there is the forge of the god Hephaestus or inside it lives the stables giant Typhon, closed there by Zeus.
Eruptions of Etna follow a variety of patterns. Most occur at the summit, where there are currently five distinct craters - the Northeast Crater, the Voragine, the Bocca Nuova, and the Southeast Crater Complex. Other eruptions occur on the flanks, which have more than 300 vents ranging in size from small holes in the ground to large craters hundreds of metres across. Summit eruptions can be highly explosive and spectacular, but rarely threaten the inhabited areas around the volcano. In contrast, flank eruptions can occur down to a few hundred metres altitude, close to or even well within the inhabited areas.
Sicily drone fottage by Phantom 4 Drone