Sicily, Italy
Italy: Pantelleria
Known as the Black Pearl of the Sun, Pantelleria, an island southwest of Sicily, has preserved the slow pace beloved by its ancestors.
Italy: Sicily: Getting Acquainted With Its Beauty and Its Rich Tradition
While most people know of Sicily, few are fortunate enough to be acquainted with its beauty and its rich tradition, which it owes to its multi-cultural past.
Sicilian Mayor Offers Historic Houses for €1 Each
Eccentric mayor believes selling off property at knockdown prices could save town's old quarter
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Western Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in the western part of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Palermo, Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in Palermo, the largest city and capital of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Eastern Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in the eastern part of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Western Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in the western part of the island of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Palermo, Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in Palermo, the capital and largest city of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Eastern Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in eastern Sicily including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
Tourists Threaten Il Postino Beach
It is 13 years since Michael Radford made Il Postino. But he has never returned to the island off Sicily where some of the movie's most poignant scenes were filmed, on a beach below a cliff.
I Love Italian Wine and Food - The Sicily Region
I love Italian wine and food so much that I am doing a series on the typical and special wines and foods of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores the Sicily region of southern Italy. Bargains abound. I'll make specific recommendations, and won't be silent if I'm unhappy with a wine.
Italian Mps Kill Plan to Bridge Sicily and Mainland
· Rightwingers furious as 30-year dream lies in ruins · Earthquake and mafia risk cited by project opponents
Art of the Inquisition's Victims Revealed in Sicily
Painstaking project unveils paintings and a glimpse into lives of tortured 'heretics'.
11 Migrants Drown, 143 Captured After Boat Discovered Off Sicily
Eleven people died on the coast of Sicily yesterday as they were being smuggled into Italy. It was the latest in a string of tragedies in an area by migrant traffickers for landing their human cargos. Seven men suspected of organising the operation were arrested, accused of manslaughter, the carabinieri said.
Diving in the Ustica Islands
Although it is not commonly known as a diving destination, Sicily, in Italy, does offer a great diving area which is the Ustica Islands.
Hotel Plan Could Ruin Aeolian Islands
A plan to build eight big hotel complexes on a sleepy outcrop of volcanic islands north of Sicily could lose the archipelago its status as a United Nations World Heritage site. Thousands of holidaymakers visit the Aeolian Islands each year seeking a road-free idyll and a close-up view of...
Dig Finds Ancient Stone Doll
Archaeologists say they have found the remains of a 4,000-year-old stone doll on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. The 3cm head, crudely carved with eyes, nose and mouth and wavy hair, was found with a miniature set of terracotta cooking pots in the...
EU Says Sicily Link is Not a Bridge Too Far
Italian ministers were celebrating yesterday after the European parliament decided that a project to link Sicily to the mainland should qualify for EU funding. Last month, environmental and financial concerns led MEPs to drop the project from a list of schemes qualifying for European...
New Book Reopens Old Arguments About Slave Raids on Europe
US scholar claims more than 1m people were captured by African pirates. North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids which depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall, according to new research.
Sicily's Mysterious Village Fires
Is Lucifer loose on Sicily? No lesser figure than the honorary president of the International Association of Exorcists believes he may be. "What is happening is what normally happens when the devil enters the lives of those who let him in," Father Gabriele Amorth said yesterday as...
Migrants Found Dead Off Sicily
Coastguard recovers 13 bodies but fears a further 50 drowned.
After the storm
As the storm raged, our hydrofoil nudged gingerly towards the jetty and the crew in their yellow sou'westers tried to lower the gangplank.
Link From Sicily to Mainland May Be a Bridge Too Far
Italy's plan for a suspension bridge linking Sicily to the mainland have been put in doubt following a report which says that the structure will be anchored on a shifting seabed. Construction is due to start in 2005 and end by 2011 and is expected to cost £3.1bn. The bridge will span...
...while, in Sicily, the Mafia Sells Water
Philip Willan reports from Palermo, where a record drought is proving good business for some.
Called into question
The Danube Seven are not the first women to have been ordained priests. There is strong evidence that women functioned as priests in the south of Italy and Sicily between the second and ninth centuries.
Italy considers state of emergency as 1,000 immigrants land in Sicily
Italy was considering declaring a state of emergency on illegal immigration last night after a ship with around 1,000 refugees, said to be Kurds from Iraq, arrived in Sicily from Turkish waters.
Sicily Plans Catholic Mount Rushmore
Looking for an edge in the battle with Greece and Spain for tourists, Sicily has devised a masterplan: a Roman Catholic Mount Rushmore. There are plans for the faces of the Pope, Mother Teresa and Padre Pio, a miracle-working friar, to be carved into the hills of Segesta in an effort to...
Eccentric mayor believes selling off property at knockdown prices could save town's old quarter
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Western Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in the western part of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Palermo, Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in Palermo, the largest city and capital of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
A Quick Tour Of Italy - Eastern Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This short article explores sights in the eastern part of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicily wine. Please join me on this quick tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Western Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in the western part of the island of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Palermo, Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in Palermo, the capital and largest city of Sicily in southern Italy including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
I Love Touring Italy - Eastern Sicily
I love touring Italy so much that I am doing a series on both the well known and the rarely visited tourist attractions of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores sights in eastern Sicily including some history, local food, and Sicilian wine. Please join me on this tour.
Tourists Threaten Il Postino Beach
It is 13 years since Michael Radford made Il Postino. But he has never returned to the island off Sicily where some of the movie's most poignant scenes were filmed, on a beach below a cliff.
I Love Italian Wine and Food - The Sicily Region
I love Italian wine and food so much that I am doing a series on the typical and special wines and foods of Italy's twenty regions. This article explores the Sicily region of southern Italy. Bargains abound. I'll make specific recommendations, and won't be silent if I'm unhappy with a wine.
Italian Mps Kill Plan to Bridge Sicily and Mainland
· Rightwingers furious as 30-year dream lies in ruins · Earthquake and mafia risk cited by project opponents
Art of the Inquisition's Victims Revealed in Sicily
Painstaking project unveils paintings and a glimpse into lives of tortured 'heretics'.
11 Migrants Drown, 143 Captured After Boat Discovered Off Sicily
Eleven people died on the coast of Sicily yesterday as they were being smuggled into Italy. It was the latest in a string of tragedies in an area by migrant traffickers for landing their human cargos. Seven men suspected of organising the operation were arrested, accused of manslaughter, the carabinieri said.
Diving in the Ustica Islands
Although it is not commonly known as a diving destination, Sicily, in Italy, does offer a great diving area which is the Ustica Islands.
Hotel Plan Could Ruin Aeolian Islands
A plan to build eight big hotel complexes on a sleepy outcrop of volcanic islands north of Sicily could lose the archipelago its status as a United Nations World Heritage site. Thousands of holidaymakers visit the Aeolian Islands each year seeking a road-free idyll and a close-up view of...
Dig Finds Ancient Stone Doll
Archaeologists say they have found the remains of a 4,000-year-old stone doll on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia. The 3cm head, crudely carved with eyes, nose and mouth and wavy hair, was found with a miniature set of terracotta cooking pots in the...
EU Says Sicily Link is Not a Bridge Too Far
Italian ministers were celebrating yesterday after the European parliament decided that a project to link Sicily to the mainland should qualify for EU funding. Last month, environmental and financial concerns led MEPs to drop the project from a list of schemes qualifying for European...
New Book Reopens Old Arguments About Slave Raids on Europe
US scholar claims more than 1m people were captured by African pirates. North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids which depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall, according to new research.
Sicily's Mysterious Village Fires
Is Lucifer loose on Sicily? No lesser figure than the honorary president of the International Association of Exorcists believes he may be. "What is happening is what normally happens when the devil enters the lives of those who let him in," Father Gabriele Amorth said yesterday as...
Migrants Found Dead Off Sicily
Coastguard recovers 13 bodies but fears a further 50 drowned.
After the storm
As the storm raged, our hydrofoil nudged gingerly towards the jetty and the crew in their yellow sou'westers tried to lower the gangplank.
Link From Sicily to Mainland May Be a Bridge Too Far
Italy's plan for a suspension bridge linking Sicily to the mainland have been put in doubt following a report which says that the structure will be anchored on a shifting seabed. Construction is due to start in 2005 and end by 2011 and is expected to cost £3.1bn. The bridge will span...
...while, in Sicily, the Mafia Sells Water
Philip Willan reports from Palermo, where a record drought is proving good business for some.
Called into question
The Danube Seven are not the first women to have been ordained priests. There is strong evidence that women functioned as priests in the south of Italy and Sicily between the second and ninth centuries.
Italy considers state of emergency as 1,000 immigrants land in Sicily
Italy was considering declaring a state of emergency on illegal immigration last night after a ship with around 1,000 refugees, said to be Kurds from Iraq, arrived in Sicily from Turkish waters.
Sicily Plans Catholic Mount Rushmore
Looking for an edge in the battle with Greece and Spain for tourists, Sicily has devised a masterplan: a Roman Catholic Mount Rushmore. There are plans for the faces of the Pope, Mother Teresa and Padre Pio, a miracle-working friar, to be carved into the hills of Segesta in an effort to...