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Silvestri Craters

Silvestri Craters

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Silvestri Craters

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Parco dell'Etna

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Location: Nicolosi, Catania, Sicily, Italy

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Martin Donat

March 5, 2018

Mountain biking

At the valley station of the Etna, you will first pass this restaurant. This is open daily from 7 to 20 o'clock. As it is sometimes very cold up here (even if it's pleasantly warm downstairs), you may be happy about the wood-burning oven inside the restaurant, and coffee is always going on in Italy anyway. Directly behind the restaurant, a small path leads to a side crater of Etna. A quite impressive view awaits you here.

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Daniel

March 10, 2019

Road cycling

The Silvestri Craters were created when Etna erupted in 1892 and stand as a gateway on both sides of the road to Rifugio Sapienza. Simple paths lead to the crater rims and the lower of the two craters can be viewed up close even with racing bike shoes.

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Emanuele Milazzo

March 20, 2023

Road cycling

Make sure you have water and food because you won't find anything for almost 30 km.

Challenging route, you need to be trained, you go up for 30 km with very important slopes.

For the rest... Enjoy the view ;)

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