A story that began half a million years ago and currently unfolds at a height of more than 3,300 meters above sea level, overlooking a landscape that changes with each eruption. Welcome to Etna, a continent inhabited by a million people, dreamt of and visited by tourists and scholars. A multiform entity that is both a volcano and a mountain, a nymph, a god, male and female, or perhaps neither one nor the other. Paraphrasing Sciascia we could write: to each his own Etna. A truth that also applies to this travel journal where, between a granita and a glass of wine, the authors reveal the promenades, grottoes, breathtaking views and expanses of a lava sea that have illuminated Pasolini’s films and inspired Battiato’s music. This booklet mergers cultural tours and nature-based itineraries, combines culinary and cultural ideas with the old stories told by those who live here, allowing readers to discover that in the presence of the volcano