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Smoke & Fire: Volcanic Sicily
Start in
Catania
, a city built of lava from the devastating volcanic eruption of 1669. Your
first logical step is to climb the volcano that did all the damage,
Mt Etna
, nowadays one
of Sicily's leading tourist attractions. As legend would have it, it was from Etna's lofty
heights that the Cyclops hurled his stones at the fleeing Odysseus - you can still see their
jagged forms along the dramatic
Riviera dei Ciclopi
coastline, where traditional fishing
villages have been reinvented as summer resorts. Next follow our
driving tour
of Etna's
western flank and continue north to
Milazzo
, where you can catch a ferry to
Lipari
, the
largest of the Aeolian Islands. Read up on the archipelago's fiery past at Lipari's Museo
Archeologico, then go tour a few volcanoes for yourself. Nature lovers can explore the
