The port area of Vulcano is one that remains most impressed in the mind of visitors to the Aeolian Islands. The first thing you notice as you step off the hydrofoil is the classic smell of “rotten egg”, the unmistakable fumes coming from the volcanic fumaroles. The unpleasant smell is given by ...

One of the most famous tourist attractions of Vulcano is its thermal mud baths. These are two hot mud pools where you can benefit from their thermal properties. It is really curious to observe the mud pools, which are grey and literally “boil”, taking on a completely malleable behaviour, adjust...

The Gran Cratere of the Fossa is the mountain that can be seen from the port of Vulcano. Though not very tall (just 400 metres high), its charm is immense, because you have the chance to see a genuine volcano, whose current activity is given by the numerous fumaroles on its summit. The ascent to t...

Vulcano’s fumarole gases are not entirely of volcanic origin. The magma deep below the surface and its gases have temperatures between 850 and 1050 °C. At great depths the gases are dissolved inside the magma, but when it rises above certain altitudes, the decrease in pressure makes them sepa...

The island of Vulcano is a perfect example of how nature can create many different shapes and colours through volcanoes and bring them together in a single island. It is one of the youngest of the Aeolian Islands. Though it is not as young as Stromboli, whose last eruption was only 10 minutes ago! ...

Greek mythology placed [approfondimenti id="30964" testo_link="the forge of Hephaestus"] in the cavern of volcanoes; the strange noises heard in the caverns of the island of Vulcano were interpreted as the rumble of hammers and the crackling of the fire of the god’s forge. In Christian times, peop...