HISTORY:
Unexpected causes snow storms, the Great Hotel accommodated for the night hundred of skiers block to you on the way of the return, than they sat down to the better one in goes halls to you of the flat earth. In 1971, during the lavica tap that the advanced part of the funivia destroyed, then the President of the Republic Giuseppe Saragat, accompanied from the authorities to the continuation, fù accommodated in the premises of the Great Hotel and then accompanied on the lavico forehead to pian of the Lago with the "cats of snows" working in the sciistica season. It was the lavica tap of 1983 to giving the grace blow to the structure. With the cancellation of the provincial road nicolosi-Etna, the Great Hotel of the Etna remained detached from the tourist flows of the Etna and only connected through the trazzera milia, sure not adapted to the need and that it did not allow, between the other, the passage of the tourist buses. From then the activity it remained of paralyzed fact and the structure more adequately not used and subject to the rigors of the mountain climate, went slowly pian losing strength itself. The purchase from part of the Agency Park of the Etna and the new restructure reopen, for the Great hotel, never interesting scenes how much.