Hephaïstos (or Vulcan), while moving or forging the weapons of the gods, used to cause roarings and eruptions, which terrified the local inhabitants.
" But just besides, Mount Etna roars amidst awful shakings. Sometimes, it spits out a dark cloud up in the air, fully smoking with black whirls and burning ashes, and it casts upwards some tongues of fire so high that it seems to lick up the stars ! Sometimes, in a thrust, it erects some masses of rock, bowels ripped from the mountain, where it gathers noisily liquified stones, where it burns out and boils down at the bottom of its crack."
Virgil, the Eneide (III, 570, 582)

To visit Etna : Stories about volcanoes and eruptions : Mount Etna

* Blog of a volcanologist, Boris Behncke's one ;
* Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia ;
* informations and images by Volcano World ;
* Etna Trekking's webcams ;
* web camera, from 2 points of view ;
* Natural park of Etna (in Italian).

Sicilia, "land of Cyclopes" as said Virgile, 2 000 years ago