Hotel CORSARO sits at an altitude of 2,000 metres on the south side of the highest volcano in Europe.

The origin of the hotel dates back to the 1940s, when buses and travel agencies discovered Mount Etna. The Corsaro restaurant became a fixed stopping point along their Grand Tour of Sicily. Later, the restaurant expanded into the hotel of today.

The Corsaro family stood up to the volcano’s temperament, fighting against several eruptions in the last twenty-year period, despite the prevailing view that the south side of the volcano is the ’safe’ side. The most devastating for the hotel was the eruption of 1983, which destroyed the entire original building. In 1985, reconstruction of the hotel began, which was completed in the 1990s.

Hotel CORSARO is immersed in the fascinating landscape of Etna Natural Park. It is located just 300 metres from the cable car, chairlift and ski-lift. Hotel CORSARO is an ideal base for excursions to the top craters and for winter sports activities. Recommended by the most prestigious tour guides as a friendly stopping place for people who wish to visit the volcano, to ski in Sicily, or to view the most unique landscape in the world, while at the same time enjoying comfortable rooms and delicious home cooking.

Hotel CORSARO has 17 rooms delightfully furnished in wood, each provided with satellite-TV, direct telephone, and a private bathroom with a hairdryer. You have a range of room styles from which to choose: rooms with romantic king size beds, to large family rooms that view from the highest terraces the magnificent landscape of Catania’s Gulf.

In a natural context, unique in the world, Hotel CORSARO gives international researchers a place to live in close contact with a permanently active volcano. The proximity to Etna’s spectacular lava eruptions is often just a few kilometres.

All mountain lovers will have the opportunity to enjoy long pleasure walks in the forest in the summer and, ski, downhill and cross-country, during the short, but intense, Etna winter.

Thanks to Amara Graps (www.amara.com) for the translation.