On Italy’s island of Sicily, below a sometimes smoking Mount Etna volcano, the city of Catania ... Yet costs of hand harvesting low-yield grapes led to a decline in production in the 20 th ...

Catania airport on the Italian island of Sicily was closed on Friday after Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, erupted and spewed ash into the sky, disrupting air travel.

The island of Sicily ... grapes. A sun-drenched jewel of the Mediterranean, the heat is tempered by sea breezes and a varied topography of plains and mountains, even boasting its own volcano.