Walking
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… walking, lassù, on volcano the extinguished Moio mount… |
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In order to reach the Vulcanetto di Mojo he is sufficient to follow the street indications for Mojo Alcantara. Joints at the beginning of the country to enter the road that, to right, coasts the Gasoline refueling and that it leads until Malvagna; it is advised to park the car after approximately 500 meters and continuing on foot, feeding a strait lane that inerpica on the lavica cliff ridge until the summit of the Vulcanetto. The ruin of a colonica house and a peasant cottage affords to characterize better, even if indicated from a trust, the beginning of the lane, delimited from walls to dry in lavica stone. Joints on the top of the small crater the Etna can be admired that majestic surpasses the valley of the Alcantara. It is possible to carry out the short turn of the crater and to admire the panorama waiting for the sunset. |
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Joints on the top, beyond observing all the Valley of the Alcantara, from Francavilla to Randazzo, with on the background the Etna, can be gone around of the crater and be come down down where a time was the igneous mouth; the scene that arrives is that of a “covered natural amphitheater” from a luxuriant vegetation that, in the course of the millenia, has taken the windward on the barren one and brullo lavico landscape. |
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One of a kind, the volcano of Mojo is the more distant of the temporary cones of the Etna. The volcano is high 703 meters above sea level and its diameter to the base is of approximately 700 meters. |
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It is common conviction, also because suffragata from news brought back in ancient scientific witnesses - that this was own vulcanetto to have erupted, perhaps thousand years before the birth of Christ, the language of washes, long a some thirty of kilometers, than reached in the before sea Taormina it has formed the peninsula of Schisò Head on which, in the Vlll century a.C., the calcidese Teocle founded the citizen of Naxos. The eruption of the vulcanetto of Mojo also would have originated the characteristic Throats of the Alcantara, situated to horse between the territories of Motta Camastra and Castiglione di Sicilia. The water of the river has succeeded, in the course of the millenia, to model hardest laviche cliffs gushed by the eruption, until to form an only landscape to the world for its wild beauty. |
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