Leave Your car in the Parcheggio Gole Alcantara, then go out of the big gate and turn to the left to make Your way to Biglietteria comunale Gole Alcantara – because going through community gate will be much cheaper than going through Parco geologico botanico gole dell’alcantara entrance.

In a different environment, this would be an ordinary river, but what makes it interesting is the fact that at some point the river’s natural flow was blocked by lava from Mt. Etna. Without getting too scientific, it ended up forming columns and crystallizing, and over time, the river eroded these columns creating spectacular gorges and ravines.