The testimony of Sicilian Blog of the experience lived at the Pollina Premium Resort. We would like to underline that in order to make our judgment – and therefore our experience – as real as possible we did not come into contact with the property previously and we paid everything at the current rates. Arrival […]
The Greek theatre of Siracusa hosted and still hosts classical theatrical performances today. In fact, it is the city of Athens that we look at, in particular, at the tragedies of the fifth century. B.C. and to the model they provided: for example the Dionysias, shows that were organized at the foot of the Acropolis […]
The Sicilian countryside extends for kilometers in the hinterland of the island, also touching points near the sea. The inland provinces certainly enjoy the privilege of huge cultivated spaces in which the colors and the alternation of crops play a key role in bringing the true hedonistic experience to life in Sicily. The farms between […]
Enna is an Italian town of 26 173 inhabitants, capital of the free municipal consortium of the same name in Sicily. It was called Castrogiovanni until 1927, when it took back the ancient name of Enna. The city was defined Urbs Inexpugnabilis by the Romans for its impregnability. In the previous three millennia it was […]
The Egadi Islands are an Italian archipelago, in Sicily, between the lower Tyrrhenian and the Sicilian channel. Located about 7 km from the west coast of Sicily, between Marsala and Trapani, in the free municipal consortium of Trapani, the archipelago consists of three isolated and two islets, plus a series of rocks and stacks. Already […]
When I decided to leave to live a new experience in Sicily I was not yet clear what the destination should have been. I am a lover of novels and Andrea Camilleri was certainly one of the authors that I read avidly. I took information about the most important places taken from the writings of […]
Fontanarossa is the main airport in Southern Italy, sixth in Italy (as of 2019) for passenger traffic and second in Italy for national traffic. Furthermore, the Catania-Rome route is the busiest nationally and the fourth in Europe. The new terminal of Fontanarossa Airport On May 5, 2007, in the presence of the then Minister of […]
The Island of Panarea is an Italian island belonging to the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, in Sicily. Administratively it belongs to Lipari, an Italian municipality of the metropolitan city of Messina, of which it constitutes a fraction of 241 inhabitants, divided into the centers of San Pietro (the main landing place), Ditella and Drauto. […]
The Island of Filicudi is in Italy belonging to the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, in Sicily. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Lipari; the two inhabited centers Filicudi Porto and Pecorini a Mare. The origin of the Island of Filicudi The Origin of the name of Filicudi In ancient times the island […]
The Island of Alicudi in Italy belonging to the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, in Sicily. Administratively it belongs to Lipari, an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Messina. The inhabitants of the island are called arcudari in Sicilian. In ancient times it was known as Ericussa, from the ancient Greek Ἐρικοῦσσα (“rich in […]
