Etna East from Villa Mirador

The View Over Mount Etna

This camera looks west from Villa Mirador toward the broad eastern slopes of Mount Etna, the highest and most active volcano in continental Europe. The shifting summit, ringed by lava fields and ash-darkened ridges, dominates the horizon above the green farmland of the Etnean foothills.

Zafferana Etnea

In the foreground lie the gardens, vineyards and orange groves of Zafferana Etnea, a hillside town famed for its honey and its perch on the volcano's fertile eastern apron. Lines of palm trees and terracotta-roofed houses trace the gentle descent toward the Ionian coast.

A Living Volcano

Etna is in near-constant activity, its plumes and occasional lava flows watched from villages all along this slope. The panorama captures the volcano's ever-changing moods, from calm clear vistas to billowing summit clouds.

Eastern Sicily

This corner of the Metropolitan City of Catania blends Mediterranean agriculture with raw volcanic geology, a landscape shaped over millennia by Etna's eruptions and treasured by the communities that live in its shadow.