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In the region Sciara rises one of the more interesting tourist places of Sicily: the canyons of the Alcantara.
To 1.200 meters high on the slopes of the Etna it flows, tortuous and inaccessible, the river Alcantara. Thousand of years an enormous lava casting, sprung ago by the crater etneo Mojo, invaded the valley covering himself/herself/itself it actually made road to the sea to the height of Head Schiṣ.
With the cooling of the incandescent magmis tall walls of perfect basaltic prisms were geometrically formed. During the following millennia, the icy and impervious waters of the river Alcantaras eroded the lava casting drawing a similar landscape to a canyon, the canyons of the Alcantara.
The height of the rock (around 20 meters) opposes with the width of few meters (around 4-5 meters) giving a suggestive aspect and irripetibile. Among the tall and black lava walls clear little ponds, foamy falls and small beaches are met formed by the erosion. Here it is possible to stop to the dry land and to admire the imposing basaltic prisms that as ancient columns surround the zone.
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Going down from the source to valley up to the canyons, the landscape it is in continuous change. From the woods of the source to the typical Mediterranean stain with the shovels of fig trees of Indian and the great bushes of attached euforbia tenaciously to the rocks. Dipped in this luxuriant vegetation, reaches the zone of the throats, caves and ravines are discovered to precipice on the waters.
The name of the river, and of the homonym valley, it finds his/her origins in the period of Arabic domination "To the Qantarah", and it refers to a bridge to arc built from the Romans and able to withstand the storming floods of the river that offer today still an impressive show.
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The excursion to the canyons requires around a hour and half and to the entrance it is possible to protect of boot-salopette (fisherman type) to wear for avoiding to bathe in the waters, always very cold, of the river. Normally the bed of the river has been practicable since May in September. The rest of the year he can reach only the entrance of the canyons. I come down along the river, the result is seen of a magnificent incassatura that the Alcantara is dug in it washes her/it. The canyons, wide few meters but I lavish over winds, introduces him horrid and wild. The inferior entry introduces the two walls black structures that one are risen in front of the other and they run after him toward the sky. The chromatic contrasts are very strong: the black of the rock, the blue of the sky and the green of the water.
And' possible to go up again in elevator. And' possible to make agricampeggio in special platforms.
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