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Artefacts loaned from Italian museums include archival material such as documents, films and photographs, says The Art Newspaper, as well as stimuli invoking sight, sound and scent. The project was conceptualised by anti-mafia charity Fondazione Falcone, with this instalment following on from a related event in 2022 marking the 30th anniversary ant...

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Italian contractor WeBuild has argued in the Italian Parliament that a bridge across the Strait of Messina is a strategic project that is ready to be built, will be an economic boost and can overcome the considerable seismic risks of the area. The road and rail bridge connecting the island of Sicily with mainland Italy at Calabria would be 3.6km...

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There are many reasons to visit Sicily, but the food just might be the most compelling one. The island’s many waves of occupation under Arab, Norman, and Spanish rule, combined with its fertile land, volcanic soils, and surrounding sea make for a diverse and extremely delicious culinary tradition. We could fill a whole issue with dishes to try here...

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Join us at Columbus Citizens Foundation | 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY, on Tuesday, May 2 for an enlightening presentation by CCF Member Santi Buscemi on the fairy tales of Luigi Capuana. Buscemi's book, Sicilian Tales, translates nineteen fairy tales from Capuana's C'era una volta. RSVP here. While you can expect to meet traditional characters...

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The island of Vulcano is part of the Aeolian archipelago in Sicily and is making headlines these days for an important discovery made by some American scientists. It would have been identified here, in fact, a bacterium capable of quickly cleaning the atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Vulcano is an area with an ancient history around which myths and le...

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Sicily is the favorite destination of the super rich: suffice it to say that in the first three months of 2023, nearly 500 millionaires arrived on the island for short stays in luxury locations. Among the celebrities who have chosen the beauty of the Sicilian territory are U.S. actor Will Smith and Fendi designer Kim Jones. Luxury vacations in Sici...

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In March, Time Magazine announced the World’s Greatest Places of 2023, a list of “50 extraordinary destinations to explore” around the world. It includes some fairly well-known locations, like Barcelona, Kyoto, Mexico City, and also Naples; plus some unusual places like Musanze (Rwanda), Luang Prabang (Laos), Timisoara (Romania), and Pantelleria, d...

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The Leopard – Il Gattopardo, in Italian – is a book published in 1958 and written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957). The author didn’t live to see his work printed and made public as it came out a year after his death and in its full edition in 1969. The book gained immediate success and was awarded the Strega prize in 1959. Against the b...

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The town's urban development follows two lines: the Arab one "inside the walls," which is projected through the sixteenth century with the thickening of residences around the fortress of Zabut, and the seventeenth-eighteenth-century one "outside the walls," with the town hall acting as a hinge. The tour begins at the 19th-century L'Idea theater at...

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Sicilian food is completely different from your usual Italian cuisine. If you’re going to be spending time in Sicily, don’t expect to grab a Roman carbonara or a Florentine steak. Instead, imagine a cuisine filled with fresh vegetables, lots of seafood, and the smallest amount of meat. Imagine eggplants and pine nuts and swordfish, wild fennel grow...

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