The lava caves
Grotta dei Lamponi and Grotta del Gelo, where the ice never melts. You need a real guide and half a day: we'll book one, and not the sort who stops at the car park.
Between the vines and the beech wood, at 550 metres
Contrada Arrigo is four kilometres from the centre of Linguaglossa, on the road climbing towards Piano Provenzana. You can drive right up to the gate — and you'll need the car: nothing else comes up here.
Where we are
Between the vines and the beech wood, at 550 metres
Contrada Arrigo is four kilometres from the centre of Linguaglossa, on the road climbing towards Piano Provenzana. You can drive right up to the gate — and you'll need the car: nothing else comes up here.
- Linguaglossa town centre4 km — 8 minutes
- Ragabo pine forest7 km — 12 minutes
- Piano Provenzana (lifts and pistes)18 km — 25 minutes
- Randazzo16 km — 20 minutes
- Alcantara Gorges22 km — 30 minutes
- Taormina38 km — 45 minutes
- The sea at Fiumefreddo24 km — 30 minutes
- Catania airport58 km — 50 minutes
Demonstration imageThe right hour
What to do, in our opinion
In Sicily it is not only where you go: it is what time you get there. These are ours.
Valle del Bove at dawn
Leave at five, reach the rim as the sun comes out of the sea. It's the walk guests still talk about ten years later.
Skiing with the sea in view
December to March at Piano Provenzana. Few pistes, few people, and the coast visible from the chairlift. Rental and passes down in the village.
The Etna wineries
There are about thirty on the north side. Three or four run serious tastings with the producer present. We'll tell you which — and drive you back if you've had a few.
The Circumetnea railway
The little train that loops the volcano from Randazzo to Giarre: two hours of old lava flows, pistachio groves and villages. In autumn it's worth the fare three times over.
The chestnuts of Sant'Alfio
The Hundred Horse Chestnut is two thousand years old and still alive. Half an hour by car, with a village festival around it in October.
Book direct: the same room costs you less
With no commission to hand a platform the rate comes down, and there's a bottle of our Etna Rosso in the room when you arrive.