Sicily Guide

By the end of the year, Linguaslossa, a small village of the Catania province, will host the filming of “L’Aquilone sul Vulcano”, a movie written by Michelangelo Antonioni. The Italian director died on Monday July 30. The Sicilian region wants commemorate him and remember his attachment to the island.

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At its fifth edition, the Blues & Wine Soul Festival is a big wine and music event: three days dedicated to the big stars of blues & soul in the heart of the Valley of the Temples archeological park in Agrigento, Sicily. While the music vibrates onstage at night, the best wineries of Sicily and […]

A bill from the Sicilian region granted Rocco Forte the right to build the golf course in Verdura, a village nearby Sciacca in Sicily. It has been a long fight so far. The project has been stopped several times. I read from the news that works are already resumed. Hopefully, this is the last call.

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I live in the United States and have been hearing for a couple of years now that Rocco Forte Hotels has a serious interested in building a luxury resort with a golf course in Verdura, a village nearby Sciacca (Agrigento province in Sicily). It also says so on Rocco Forte Hotels’ web site. As a matter of […]

It is, in part, true that Sicilian men do not make chivalry their main trait while dealing with the opposite sex, but it is hard to digest that the Italian Interior Minister, Giuliano Amato, compared violence of some Muslim extremists to the violence that Sicilian men used against women until the ’70s, calling it a Sicilian-Pakistani tradition. The […]

Carlo Corino, the Piedmontese enologist who made Sicilian wine famous, has passed away. A personality who shied away from the clamor and the spotlight of the Italian wine world, Corino was a top level technician in terms of experience and skill. His name will be forever linked to the success of Planeta with whom, in […]

Hapimag, a Swiss tour operator, took on a holiday resort in Cefalù (Palermo) on the northern coast of Sicily. The resort will first be available as a supplementary accommodation with a fixed allocation of 30 apartments.
About 5 km away from the attractive little town of Cefalù, the resort is ideal for excursions to discover picturesque landscapes, […]

Another article about the Getty Museum and a possible illecit acquisition appeared on today’s issue of the New York Times. The Los Angeles-based museum might have illegaly bought a statue of the goddess Aphrodite for $18 million in 1988.
In the Aidone Archaeological Museum, which houses artifacts from a nearby dig at an ancient Greek settlement called […]

I have to admit my favorite amaro in Italy is Amaro Florio, a bitter liquor made of a blend of 13 different ingredients among which herbs, roots, citrus fruit peels and spices. You usually drink it after a meal. Amaro Averna comes right after in my favorites…
Joe Ray, a journalist specialized in in food and travel […]

My family has always been extremely devoted to the Patron Saint of Pace del Mela (Me): Maria SS. della Visitazione. My grandfather was the treasurer of the brotherhood named after the Madonna. July the 2nd is the day Pace del Mela, my hometown, celebrates its patron saint. It is one of the town’s main celebrations […]