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Etna's ash reaches Calabria as Catania flights suspended
Mount Etna's eruption has closed Catania's airport again, and the fallout is reaching Calabria's ports and summer routes.
Saverio Gallo · 452 words
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Geography & climate
Hot Mediterranean coasts, cool mountainous interior.
A long mountainous peninsula between two seas — the Sila and Aspromonte massifs, two coasts.
Economy & culture
Agriculture (citrus, bergamot), tourism, ports (Gioia Tauro), remittance-shaped economy.
Magna Graecia and Byzantine roots, Albanian and Greek minorities, the weight of the 'Ndrangheta and of emigration.