Palermo Province
Italian Inmates Denied Designer Clothes
Prisoners in Sicily must finally give up expensive labels when they are thrown behind bars.
Read MorePatti Chiari - Turiddu , Robin Hood or Mafia tool?
On an October day in a normally peaceful cemetery in the hills south of Palermo , a crowd of journalists gathers and an old women screams,“Go away! Leave my brother alone.” Rosalia Pisciotta and other locals are watching, with the international media, the exhumation of the remains of Salvatore Giuliano, folk hero or traitor to his class, depending on how you view Sicilian history.
Read More"Take me back to jail - Please!"
Last week a Sicilian builder who had been placed under house arrest begged police to take him back to prison instead.
Read MoreThree of the best sights near Palermo
Sicily suffers from the mafia label but the island has much to offer to those who are prepared to look beyond the cliches. Tara McLaughlin reveals three hidden gems near Palermo
Read MoreRiina villa to go to Impastato Association
A Palermo villa that once belonged to Italy's bloodiest Mafia boss is to be re-assigned to a group carrying on the fight of an anti-Mafia hero.
Read MoreSnow in Palermo
Residents here in the Sicilian capital woke up to a surprise on Thursday with snow laying a light white blanket over a city where a week ago it was 20 degree C.
Read MoreOman and Sicily exchange horses and goats
The Sultan of Oman on Wednesday sent Sicilian regional President Raffaele Lombardo a thoroughbred stallion and two mares from his royal stables in return for the hospitality shown during his visit to the region this summer.
Read MoreLast sicilian cart painter may close shop
The last active painter of Sicily's famous, brightly-painted carts may be hanging up his brushes for good after a decision by the Palermo archdiocese to have him evicted from the shop he has been using for the past 25 years.
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