Mount Etna Tourism Places

About Dolomites Tourist Place  

The Dolomites, a mountain group in the North Italian Alps, close to the Austrain border are famous for their magnificent sunrises and sunsets. The mountains get their name from the Dolomite rock of magnesium limestone. The highest peak is Marmoladaand rises to 10958 feet and seventeen more peaks rise to 9842 feet or more. 

It has two valleys, 'Val Garden' and 'Val Badia'. About 16,000 ladini live in it. They are the descendants of the Roman soldiers who settled down there after the wars. 

The valley of 'Cortina d'Ampezzo', or the sunny valley is surrounded by five towering Dolomite peaks.
Each of these is unique and beautiful. 'Sorapis' is tongue like with its subsidiary ridges, 'Cristallis' is cathedral shaped, 'Clinque Torri' like a tower with battlements, 'Pelmo and Civetta' like soldiers standing to attention. 

In the setting sun they glow red, mauve and purple against the darkening sky. 

Matterhorn Tourist Place

At 14770 feet, Mt. Matterhorn is not the tallest peak of Europe, but is the most impressive. It inspired many painters, poets and writers with its majesty.  It is half in Italy and half in Switzerland in the Peninine Alps. The mountain tapers like a rough amethyst as if carved out of quartz by some gigantic axe. From the Italian side, with its imposing terraced walls, it is a considerably great challenge. From the Swiss side it tooks like an isolated peak but it is actually the butt end of a ridge and easier for climbing. 

John Ruskin, the famous writer lavishly describes it as "An alpine tower hewn by the axe of God". He
"paid tribute and further said" in those firm grey bastions of the cervin, which he said was thrust up into the great wall of firmament above all inviolable.

Mount Etna Tourist Place 

Mt Etna looms over the eastern part of the Island of Sicily and is visible for great distances in every direction. It is an active volcano and its unpredictable nature has caused men both to fear it and admire it. 

The Greek regarded Mt. Etna as a forge of their fire God, Hephaistos. Today it stands at a height of 12598 feet, but this keeps increasing beacuse of the deposits after an eruption and decreases because of wind and rain. 135 eruptions have been recorded so far. A continuous stream of smoke and a red glow in the sky a top the mountain, remind people that it is alive and only resting.

A road 86 miles long encircles the volcano. Mini buses take the tourists right upto the crater. the view into the crater is awesone and scary with red hot lava shooting out, loud rumblings, rocks around cracking. It covers 500 square miles and is one of the most impressive natural wonder of the world.