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“The Old Man” or the Genius of Palermo appears in pictures, statues, and bas-reliefs all around Palermo appears also on the dust jacket cover of Jeremy Dummett’s new book on the Capital City of Sicily. Dummett goes on to tell us that this bearded man, wearing a crown and holding a serpent to his chest, “represents fertility and the creative life fo...

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The site represents the perfect example of socio-cultural, artistic, and religious fusion among the occidental culture, the Islamic and the byzantine one. It concerns nine historical buildings (two palaces, a bridge, three churches, one cathedral in Palermo plus other two cathedrals in Monreale and Cefalù, two little villages near the country seat)...

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Fostering the regrowth of Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass native to the Mediterranean, and erecting protective environmentally friendly barriers to enable their spread is the aim of a project by Italy and Tunisia. The project is called 'Innovative Methodologies and Strengthening Actions to Protect the Mediterranean Environment' and is bei...

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Let’s forget the Sicilian wheel barrows and the inflexible grandmas with the rolling pins in hands. We are used to traditional Sicilian cuisine, its intense flavors and frying smell. Let’s face it, we hardly accept compromises. Sure, tradition is important for anyone, and anywhere in the world, but it is also right to accept natural change and know...

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Gloria Mertoli’s shift is over when the first light of dawn shines on the goalposts of a rugby pitch in the Librino district of Catania, a stronghold of the Cosa Nostra, the feared Sicilian mafia. Since mobsters torched the clubhouse and team bus, she and other players on the women’s rugby team, Briganti Librino RUFC, have taken turns to stay after...

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Sicily… for millennia, this island at the crossroads of the world has been drawing peoples from across the globe to its shores, and in the second part of this very special two-part episode, Melissa Muller, author of “Sicily: Recipes Rooted in Tradition,” published by Rizzoli, shares with us some of the history behind Sicily’s most famous dishes. Me...

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March 5 & 6, 3:00 p.m. South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. GET TICKETS. Frost Opera Theater with the Frost Symphony Orchestra Present the World Premiere of the opera THE LEOPARD. Music by Michael Dellaira Libretto by J. D. McClatchy. Starring MET Opera baritone Kim Josephson, featuring Robynne Redmon, Frank Ragsdale, Kevin Short and students of...

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A particularly powerful eruption of Mount Etna has created a volcanic storm that sent bolts of lightning dramatically across the sky over eastern Sicily. A volcano expert with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, said Friday that such volcanic storms are rare but can happen in particularly violent eruptions or with volcanoes l...

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Sicily… for millennia, this island at the crossroads of the world has been drawing peoples from across the globe to its shores, and in this very special two-part episode, we’re sitting down with Melissa Muller, author of “Sicily: Recipes Rooted in Tradition,” published by Rizzoli, as she shares how she too surrendered to the siren call of this uniq...

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There are several ‘lucky’ spots in Italy where, according to popular belief, if you visit them or perform a simple ritual, often passed down through the centuries, you will get lucky. Some lucky spots you may have heard of include Juliet’s House in Verona, the statue of the bull in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the statue of the Porcellin...

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