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The province of Agrigento is creating an Archeological Park to promote tourism within its borders. The Archeological Park includes nine different places: Agrigento, Aragona, Joppolo Giancaxio, Montallegro, Porto Empedocle, Raffadali, Realmonte, Santa Elisabetta and Siculiana.

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A new port “Marina di Archimede” is scheduled to open in old part of Syracuse (Ortigia) in 40 months. The first stone was placed this week. Società Acqua Pia Antica Marcia is in charge of the project that will create 600 boat docks. Its cost is 30 million Euros.

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The new destinations are Bologna, Bruxelles, Stoccarda and Tirana.
For more information go to www.clubair.it

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Edward Deitch talks about this wine on MSNBC.
Mirabile’s Tannat is nothing less than elegant and refined, full of dark berry fruit — blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry — along with notes of coffee, tobacco, smoke and spice. It’s bright with ample acidity, and ripe but not overly alcoholic, an altogether complex and delicious wine. It’s […]

Being in the travel industry, I know that you have to work when others enjoy their leisure time. It is part of the deal, no matter what. It does not seem always the case in Sicily, but new signs show a tendency in changing this attitude.
It is this week news that the president of CDS, […]

Tim Atkin went to Sicily twenty years ago and did not enjoy his visit. Recently, he returned and acknowledges that Sicily has changed for the better in the last ten years. He affirms that the push for this transformation was made possible by a new breed of Sicilian wine producers and, above all, by Diego […]

A dear friend from Capo d’Orlando wrote to Sicily Guide about the recent feast in his hometown. Thanks, Duilio!
On October 21 and 22, the traditional “Festa della Madonna” of Capo d’Orlando (Messina province) took place under a torrential rain. This explains the lower number of visitors for this annual feast which is very much loved […]

With an ear for dialogue that may be compared to Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, and Ernest Hemingway, Sicilian writer Maria Messina presents the captivating and brutal realities of women living in early-twentieth-century Italy in this first collection of her work available in English.
Behind Closed Doors portrays the habits and gestures, the words […]

After Mothia, Selinunte is planning to be listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Archeological Sites too. Located on the southwest coast of Sicily in the province of Trapani, Selinunte was founded by the Greeks in the 7th century BC. Its name comes from the word selinon, which means wild fennel, a widely common plant throughout […]

Using photos and narratives, the exhibit opens on November 4, 2007 and stays open through February 3, 2008. Sicilian Crossings: Sicilian Emigration to America and the Derived Communities tells the story of one of the largest groups of immigrants to come through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.
This exhibit explores the economic and political […]