The Vulcanetto, thas is the spent crater of Mojo, is the most singular and the most northerly of Etna's craters. It is also probable that it was formed before Etna itself.

  Mojo and Etna Mount

The spent crater is 703 meters high, with a base of about 700 meters. It can be reached by following the road to the football field.

It is believed that a thousand years before the birth of Christ, an eruption from Mount Mojo sent a lava flow down Alcantara Valley all the way to Cape Schiṣ, where the city of Naxos was founded in the VIII century B.C.

The crater

In its course to the sea, the lava flow formed the Alcantara Gorges which the waters of the river have carved out of the solidified magma through the millennia. Scientists do not think it likely that the Vulcanetto in Mojo would ever erupt again.

Mojo and the "Vulcanetto"

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