Mount Etna Eruption Environmental Tour
- 3 hours
- Off The Beaten Track
- Catania
Your local for this experience
Experience hosted by Mirco
- Private Tour
- Carbon Neutral
- Destination
- Catania, Italy
- Category
- Off The Beaten Track
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Transport mode
- Walking tour
- Available languages
- Deutsch, English, Español, Italiano
- Included
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- Private guide
10 reasons to book this tour
- Visit in the city center
- Church of San Nicolò
- Monastero dei Benedettini
- Terme Romane della Rotonda
- Teatro Romano
- Castello Ursino
- Gammazita area
- Gammazita well
- Fish Market area
- Sea arches
What you can expect
At the indicated time we'll meet in front of the Church of San Nicolò, from where we'll start a tour all about Mount Etna. We'll remember its eruptions and see the repercussions they had on the city of Catania while we discover some very interesting places.
First of all, we'll enter the courtyard of the Benedictine monastery of Catania. This historic site was one of the first to be damaged by the eruption of 1669, which left important remains that can still be seen today, such as huge blocks of lava several metres high.
We'll continue our tour descending towards the Baths of the Rotonda and the Roman theatre while we tell you the history of the Amenano River. Nowadays, this riverbed is largely underground, we'll tell you why!
From this point, we'll head towards the Castello Ursino, a fortress that was almost completely surrounded by lava flow. There, we'll discover how this impressive natural phenomenon left its mark on the architecture of the city.
If you take the tour in the morning, we'll follow the course of the solidified lava flow and arrive at the A putia dell'Ostello hostel, where we'll show you a hidden jewel inside its small bar. If you take the tour in the afternoon, we'll take you to the Pozo di Gammazita, linked to the eruption of 1669 with an interesting legend that we'll tell you during the activity.
We'll finish this tour of the Etna eruption in Catania at the bar of the hostel after 2 hours.
This is the plan
Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with Mirco.
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Meeting point
Meet at Piazza Dante - Catania to start your journey
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Itinerary
This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.
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Church of San Nicolò
We stop in front of the biggest church in Sicily. I'll tell you its story, which is very interisting and unique -
Monastero dei Benedettini
a monastery included in Unesco heritage, considered as one of the biggest in Europe. I'll tell you its story and why it is connected to the eruption of 1669 -
Terme Romande delle Rotonde
One of the thermal roman baths that we can admire in Catania city center. There is an interesting curiosity I will tell you when we'll see this monument together! -
Roman Theater
one of the most important monuments we have in Catania. For the most built with lava stone, I'll tell you its story! -
Castello Ursino
One of the few medieval monuments we have in Catania city-center. This castle had been surrounded by the lava of 1669 and I'll tell you in detail what this eruption did here -
Gammazita well
During this tour i'll show another interesting hidden gem of this tour: a well, which had been covered by the eruption of 1669. -
fish market
one of the most known places of city center of catania. Full of live in the morning for the market, full of life in the same time by the night, thanks to the dozens of bars who open -
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Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.
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Hiking Guide and Tour Guide!
If you want to discover Etna, some natural beauties in East Sicily, or cities like Catania, Syracuse or Taormina, contact me!
Six years ago gave life to a project, with the idea of shooting documentaries about each area of Sicily I visit, to document it through short videos and tell it to the viewers. Thanks to this idea, asking hospitality to the municipalities and, in return, I make a video, I have been discoverin tons of hidden natural, urban and archeological gems.
What's the aim of my ''withlocals'' profile? Show the travellers how much-hidden beauties we have in Sicily.
I want you to experience Sicily deeply as Sicilians do.
For this reason, thanks to my work of documentaries around Sicily (subtitled in English and many other languages) I am also known as “the popularizer of Sicilianity”!
My YT project is "Mirco Mannino - in Viaggio con Te", subtitled in many languages.
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