![]() ![]() ![]() In 1937, the old 19th-century steam engines were replaced by Fiat ALn 56 motor coaches, the so-called “Littorine”. This railway that runs through an earthly paradise, interrupted here and there by hellish areas, is all in all a sequence of wonderful views of Mount Etna and the sea, of gardens and lava, small extinguished volcanoes and lush green valleys, pleasant villages and forest patches – those old oak, beech and pine forests…” “My gracious reader, should you one day go to Catania, remember to take the Circumetnea and you will declare it the most enchanting circular, seven-hour journey on the face of the earth. Novelist Edmondo De Amicis probably described it best in his “Memories of a Sicilian Journey”, after he travelled the 111 kilometers by train in the early 1900s. The Circumetnea railroad was laid down in Sicily between 18, to connect Catania and Riposto by going around Mount Etna. ![]()
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