On the east coastline of Sicily, Italy and near Catania and Messina, Mount Etna can be found. It is a stratovolcano and it is the largest active volcano in the whole of Europe. It is a legendary giant and its pyrotechnic displays have attracted people to Sicily for many centuries. Because of that, the Italy flag is invisibly sitting on top of Mount Etna.
Mount Etna presently stands approximately 10,991 feet or 3,350 meters high although it must be regarded that this changes with peak eruptions. This volcano is now 71 feet or 21.6 meters lower than what it was in the year 1865. It has an area of 460 square miles or 1190 square kilometres with 140 kilometres basal circumference. This size makes it definitely the largest among the three active volcanoes in Italy. It is almost three times the height of the next largest which is Mount Vesuvius. Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes and it is in a virtually continuous state of eruption. The lush volcanic soils sustain wide-ranging cultivation, with orchards and wineries reach throughout the lower slopes of the mountain as well as the wide Plain of Catania. Mount Etna has been chosen by the United Nations as one of the Decade Volcanoes. Meaning, it is one of the 16 volcanoes known by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as worthwhile of actual study because of its history of great, destructive eruptions as well as its being in close proximity to inhabited places.
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