Catania

The travel organizing platform eSky.bg announced that Italy is the most preferred destination among Bulgarians for 2023. Nearly half of the travelers (44%) for a period of 2-3 days have chosen Italy for their vacation, with Rome, Milan, Venice, Bari, Bologna, Catania, and Naples being the most preferred destinations.

The state of emergency will be valid for six months and should first enable the payment of five million euros to particularly affected regions in the south of Italy, it was confirmed to the DPA agency from the office of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.

A new eruption of the Etna volcano, accompanied by increased seismic activity, has been detected by specialists of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy.

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Sicily around Europe's most active volcano Mount Etna, injuring at least two people, Italian media report, reports BBC

Some buildings were reportedly damaged in what was the latest in dozens of tremors since Etna erupted on Monday.

Here’s one interesting way to rejuvenate certain abandoned regions of mainland Greece, mostly in rugged mountainous areas, or even remote islands: grant people an abandoned residence on the condition that it will be restored!
That’s what one town in Sicily, Gangi, is doing, and it’s apparently working.

I was quite surprised when I learned from a Sicilian couple who were tourism professionals that our national carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) was flying four times a week to Catania.

The Italian airline Mistral Air started on April flights between Sofia and Sicily's second largest city – Catania.

The flights will be once a week, on Saturdays, and will be through end of October.