Reggio Calabria (Calabria, Italy) in a 19th century painting by Henry Jaeckel.

"Reggio is indeed one vast garden, and doubtless one of the loveliest spots to be seen on earth. A half-ruined castle, beautiful in colour and picturesque in form, overlooks all the long city, the wide straits, and snow-topped Etna volcano on the island of Sicily beyond."

- Edward Lear, Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, 1852

Henry Jaeckel, Aragonese Castle of Reggio Calabria with view of the Mount Aetna and Sicily, 1853

Etna eruption  -  Augusto Giacometti , 1928.

Swiss, 1877 -1947

Pastel on paper ,  47 x 47 cm.    

Etna Volcano and Catania, Sicily, ITALY

Taormina, Sicily - out of the season

Taormina, Sicily – out of the season

Last week of November 2022, Taormina, Sicily. I realized that I am not only off the beaten track but also out of the season. And while I was benefiting a lot from the first one, being out of the season comes with plenty of limitations. Prior to my Sicily trip, I firmly believed this Italian island was a Mediterranean paradise (like Cyprus for instance) with all-year-round mild weather and a great…

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The 1964 eruption of Mt. Etna l Sicily, Italy l LIFE

Etna Eruption, Sicily

Spectacular eruption of the Etna volcano in which the column of smoke reached about 15km above sea level. Photo taken from the town of Cesarò, in the Nebrodi mountains about 30km away from the volcano.

Photograph: Giuseppe Mario Famiani

Italy’s Mount Etna volcano spews lava fountain into the sky above Sicily (Nov 2023)

Mount Etna, 2023

Photographed by Giuseppe Tonzuso

Corrado Cagli (Italian, 1910-1976), Etna. Oil on canvas, 90 x 90 cm.

Mount Etna blows rare volcanic vortex smoke rings into sky

Mt Etna in Sicily, across the straits of Messina, taken from Reggio Calabria Italy.... what a gorgeous place

Volcanic vortices and the crescent Moon over Mount Etna. Marcella Giulia Pace.

apparently i am not over my fascination if volcanos so have a picture of snowy mount etna erupting today

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

-- Pablo Neruda

(Etna, Sicily)