We took another detour from our "Etnean knowledge sharing mission". As we had the chance to visit a bit some interesting areas in Wales, we decided to publish an easy, interesting path inside the "Waterfall Country" in Wales. We spent a few hours into the Beacon Brecons National park, surrounded by rivers end waterfalls that definetely deserve a trip.

This doesn't mean we forgot about Etna! We finally found out the time to describe and publish a trail we walked on with some friends at the beginning of the year: Calanna valley . Until 1991, the valley was green and used for etnean fruit coltivations. In that year, the eruption that covered the Bove valley reached this place, destroyng everything with a lava flow larger than 2 km. Italian Army tried to stop the lava flow, also building a wall whose ruins are still visible close to mount Calanna, but the lava flow went over the wall. Once again, the volcano won, deciding to stop a few meters before the town of Zafferana.
Now, is possibile to walk easily above cold lava flow, staring in front of nature power.

There is a place on Etna where everything works at perfection. The Museum of Etna Rural Life has been built. Tourists are taken along a guided path that shows the different ways by which the Mountain allowed the small towns to survive in the past years. The tour starts from an old pine-wood, where local elderly show how resin used to be extracted from the trees and the different uses of this substance. Sitting on a bench, a carpenter is working a couple of local wooden pieces with ancient tools, creating crafts that can be bought by tourists straight from him.

Now we have to wake up. What we talked about so far obviously does not exist on Etna. It exists in Stockholm (the Skansen), in Estonia, it surely exists in many other places in the world and could surely exist also on Etna. Instead there is a devastated refuge, a notch of the snow completely covered by vegetation, a path which can be barely be walked through. All this can be found in the path of Pietracannone houses("Sentiero delle Case di Pietracannone"), and it is in such bad conditions to have deserved an article on one of the biggest Italian national newspapers. Can we only blame the local councils because they do nothing to value what we have? But what are we doing about it, in our own small way?