Sicily
Share your Italian Book: Romancing in Sicily
From the fragrance of the jasmine and juniper bushes to the cobalt-blue sky, everything in Sicily, especially Love and Lust, are so much more vivid, so much more intense…
Read MoreSicily's Sumptuous Festivals
Sicily has a pretty impressive gastronomic calendar, with most villages holding their own food or wine festivals – which in Italian are called sagre – to celebrate the wonderful produce of each region...
Read MoreSicily Bans Soda in Schools
Instead of fizzy drinks, students will have a range of locally produced juices to choose from.
Read MoreAll Souls Day in Sicily
The 1st of November is a national holiday in Italy, known as Tutti i Santi or Ognissanti, which celebrates all saints and is followed by All Souls Day on the 2nd of November, a day devoted to honor loved ones who have passed away.
Read MoreWhat about investing in South-Eastern Sicily?
There are places that "naturally" charme you and leave such a strong mark in your mind and your heart to make you want to go back and find a way to permanently move there....
Read MoreStolen Venus Statue Returns Home to Sicily
The state stolen by looters 30 years ago has been shipped back to Italy.
Read MorePatti Chiari - "You never get old at the table"
It was Rosa, my Albanian cleaner and friend, who saw her first: a little old lady sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car, crying....
Read MoreBudino di Carrubo - Carob Pudding
This is a traditional pudding, a type of blancmange, made from carob..
Read MoreSicilian fishing boat strafed by Libyan vessel
A Sicilian fishing boat was shot at for fifteen minutes by a Libyan patrol boat in the Mediterranean on Sunday night.
Read MorePatti Chiari - Carretti Siciliani (Sicilian carts)
If you have visited Sicily you may have seen cheerfully painted wooden carts at tourist sites and you will certainly have seen replicas of the carts on sale as souvenirs. But have you ever looked closely at a traditional cart or wondered how they came to be so richly decorated?
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