Catania airport on the Italian island of Sicily was closed on Friday after Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, erupted and spewed ash into the sky, disrupting air travel. Catania airport in Sicily announced its closure today due to an eruption of Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, whose ashes fell on the airspace and the …
The Italian island of perpetual fire Its 300 residents must constantly contend with the will of nature On Stromboli Island, 300 residents live directly under one of the world’s most active volcanoes. In 1950, however, director Roberto Rossellini's film Stromboli, starring Ingrid Bergman, put the island’s smoking silhouette back on the map, drawing visitors once again to the islet’s rocky …
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The volcano is known as ’the lighthouse of the Mediterranean’ for its frequent & bright nighttime eruptions. Paroxysmal explosion at #Stromboli, largest since at least 2007. https://t.co/qTimE7gTJt — Boris Behncke July 3, 2019 Firefighters deployed to put out the fires in the area near — much of which erupted in the tiny Italian island of Stromboli — also managed to …
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