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Driving Tour:
Etna's Western Flank
STARTCATANIA
FINISHRANDAZZO
LENGTH78KM/ONE DAY
The five small towns on the western side of the Parco dell'Etna offer a wonderful escape. Tourism has largely
passed by these towns and each has a unique character.
Heading west out of
Catania
on the SS121 brings you to
Paternò
, a scruffy workaday town built
around an 11th-century Norman castello. Built in 1072 as a defence against the Saracens, the castle has been re-
