Vanedda Cave

Etna East – Zafferana etnea

Coordinates: 33S 505245 4171600 (Utm Wgs84) | 37°41'29.8″N 15°03'34.2″E

ELEVATION: 1280 m

Development: approximately 25/35m.

Nearest known location: Monte Arcimis

Exploration: visitable with only helmet and lights.

Taken over by Dario Teri and Damiano Teri (on 27.12.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX)

Notified to the relevant municipality on \\

DESCRIPTION This modest-sized cave was formed on the lava of 1792. The cavity develops on a channel and has a larger room from which a very narrow channel branches off towards the valley, which however still creates a connection with the main room. After about ten meters you find the light again with a large opening (which can act as a further entrance) and after a few meters you have a further portion of the cave of another 10/15 meters.

It is not an unexplored cave, but little known due to its location far from the most common paths, even if a few meters away passes an ancient mule track also reported on the Open Street Maps map by the surveyor. At the time of writing it would not be registered or indicated on any map, even if it is very likely that it could be known and named in dialect by veteran craftsmen (shepherds or mushroom pickers) of the area. For this reason it was preferred to give a simple name linked to the fact that the cavity is accessed by a characteristic lava flow channel that resembles a "vanedda" i.e. a small road, derived from the Sicilian dialect.