Introduction to a Lunar journey... The highest volcano in Europe impresses by its aspect ( more than 3350 meters high ), its colors, scents, vibrations and quakes but also its legends and the superstitions. In Catane , people are caution although they admire it. Planes avoid it, adapting to the winds countering its peaks. The volcano offers an exceptional panorama , the Mediterranean Sea at his foot. On early mornings it usually clearly reveals itself. Through the day, its smoke clouds in contact with the air create bigger and bigger dense clouds, almost like it wanted to fade. Sicilians call it « a`muntagna » , the mountain. So high that on a clear sky, you can see it from Syracuse ( around 100km in the south) or Caltanissetta in Sicily’s center ( more than 150km away ). The mountain ...