Enel: in Sicily One of the First Off-Shore Wind Farms in the Mediterranean
Enel has deposited the project design for one of the first off-shore wind farms in the Mediterranean Sea. The request for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been delivered by Enel to the Ministry of the Environment and the Region of Sicily.
Italy’s first off-shore wind facility will foresee the installation of 115 large generators with a capacity of between 3 and 5 megawatts each in the waters of the Gulf of Gela at least 3 nautical miles off-shore, between the towns of Licata (in the province of Agrigento), Butera and Gela (both in the province of Caltanissetta).
Read more at YourProjectNews.com
NewsNewsNew Natural Gas Is Found in Sicily
Eni SpA has made “a new, significant” natural gas discovery off the coast of Sicily, the Italian gas and oil company said Tuesday.
The find was made in the Cassiopea 1 field in the Sicilian Strait 22 kilometers (14 miles) off Agrigento. The field is 60-percent owned by Eni and 40-percent by Edison.
Read more at IHT.com
NewsNewsAnthony Capella Discovers Two Sicilian Michelin-Stars Restaurant
I am not generally a fan of Michelin-starred restaurants.
It’s not that I have a problem with the guide per se, more that satisfying the demands of a guidebook originally designed to tell haute-bourgeoisie French motor-ists where to find Parisian-style fine dining seems to do strange things to chefs, making them complicit in a production-line approach that, however upmarket, has more in common with the box-ticking of Pizza Hut or Starbucks than with good cooking.
Read more at Time Online
Food & Wine TravelFood & Wine TravelRare Roman Artifacts Found off the Coast of Sicily
Italian researchers say a rostrum, used by ancient Romans to ram enemy ships, was found off the coast of Sicily.
The rare bronze appendage may have been used in the final naval battle of the First Punic War, ANSA reported Tuesday. The rostrum was recovered about 230 feet below the surface by divers aided by remotely operated vehicles.
Read more at UPI.com
Archeology TravelArcheology TravelThe Palatine Chapel Is Back to New
After 800 days, the restauration works for the Palatine Chapel in Palermo have been completed. now the public can enjoy its view.
The Palatine Chapel is the royal chapel of the Norman kings of Sicily situated on the ground floor at the center of the Palazzo Reale in Palermo. The chapel was commissioned by Roger II of Sicily in 1132. It took eight years to build and many more to decorate with mosaics and fine art. The sanctuary, dedicated to Saint Peter, is reminiscent of a domed basilica. It has three apses, as is usual in Byzantine architecture, with six pointed arches (three on each side of the central nave) resting on recycled classical columns.
Architecture TravelArchitecture TravelThat Summer in Sicily by Marlena De Blasi
This tale could happen in Italy. From the complexities of forbidden love to “the havoc wreaked by Sicily’s eternally bewildering culture,” Marlena De Blasi fans won’t be disappointed with her latest memoir, based on a mesmerizing true story set in Sicily’s remote mountainous region. To protect the still-living protagonists and their way of life, De Blasi has changed names and placed the narrative at a geographic distance from where their haunting love story in fact unfolded.
Read more at the Providence Journal
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