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  Art Nouveau Week 2025: Celebrating Italy’s Belle Époque The best bread award in Italy this year goes to Sicily Protecting workers from extreme heat: Italy's new workplace safety protocol ORACLE: Italy’s mission to extract oxygen from moon dust The Italian cities where life and work feel most rewarding DOP Tourism: a new model for travelling in It...

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Just a few steps from Noto, a jewel of Sicilian Baroque and UNESCO World Heritage site, an authentic corner of Sicily is revealed, where time seems to expand amidst vineyards, citrus groves, and olive trees. Here, Zisola was born, the Sicilian estate of the historic Tuscan family Marchesi Mazzei, a symbol of Italian viticulture for over six centuri...

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Sicily will become the first location outside the United States where F-35 fighter jet pilots are trained, Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto announced during a visit to the Decimomannu Air Base in Sardinia. “Just as we are the only country in the world assembling F-35s outside of the U.S., at the Cameri facility in Piedmont, we’re now expand...

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Palermo is one of those places that refuses to be pinned down. With a population circling 650,000, Sicily’s capital is all about contrasts. Grand faded palaces, raucous street markets, peeling paint next to golden Baroque domes, and the whiff of panelle frying somewhere nearby.  It’s a city that looks a bit wild at first—gritty, noisy, and glorious...

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For the ultimate escape, fantasy, indulgence, magic carpet ride this Sicilian retreat gorges in rich history. It has everything, perfect weather, euphoric vistas, art, opera, renaissance, ancient Greek theater. The shopping district here makes 5th Avenue look like a miserable mouse. Taormina played host to season two of White Lotus. If you haven’t...

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One of the most incredible aspects of Italy’s rich culinary diversity is its bread. Across the country, every region, town, and village has its own unique, delicious type of bread, deeply rooted in local tradition. Each year, an award is given to the best bread in Italy—and this year, the honor went to Milazzo, a town in Sicily in the Messina provi...

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A magnificent new piece of artwork has made its way from Carlentini, Sicily, to Omaha, Nebraska—a vivid painting of Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) created by 14-year-old artist Martina Piccione. Originally sent rolled in a box alongside dozens of letters for school aged children intended to travel 5,000 miles across the ocean, the painting was meant to s...

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Tucked away in the province of Enna, between the Nebrodi and Madonie mountains in the heart of inland Sicily, lies a village that borders Gangi (in the province of Palermo) and Nicosia (in the province of Enna). Its name is Sperlinga, home to fewer than 700 residents. The name – Sperrënga in Gallo-Sicilian and Spilliňga in Sicilian – derives from t...

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Agriculture in Sicily is changing its face: mango and avocado are the new fruits of Southern Italy. Traditional crops such as citrus fruits, prickly pears, vineyards, olive trees, cereals, and ancient grains must contend with global warming and the extreme events it brings, drought and water scarcity, even the emergence of pests unknown until a few...

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Buying a 1 euro house in Italy has become a highly sought-after opportunity, and in 2025, Sicily remains one of the top regions offering this unique chance. The trend of purchasing 1 euro houses in Sicily continues to gain momentum, following the strong interest seen throughout 2024. Sicilian towns and villages face the challenge of repopulating sm...

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