Mount Etna – largest active volcano in Europe | Sicily, Italy

Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe and the most frequently erupting volcano on Earth. It has been erupting for at least 500,000 years. In 2021 alone it erupted more than 50 times. The locals call it Mungibeddu in Sicilian, and they have learned to live with a mountain that could, at any […]

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Categories: Islands, Italy, Nature, Nature, Sicily, Volcanoes

Kmeťov waterfall in Kôprova valley – the highest waterfall in Slovakia

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Kmeťov vodopád (Kmeť’s Waterfall) is the highest waterfall in Slovakia, a spectacular 80-metre cascade in the remote Kôprova Valley (Kôprová dolina) of the High Tatras, plunging down a near-vertical granite wall in one of the Tatra National Park’s most pristine and less-visited valleys. Named after the Slovak botanist and ethnographer Andrej Kmeť, this waterfall is […]

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