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The sculptor of New York City’s famed Charging Bull statue — a big Financial District tourist draw and symbol of Wall Street power — died Friday at age 80, Italian media reported. Arturo Di Modica died in Vittoria, his hometown in Sicily, said the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Di Modica had been fighting cancer for many years, and his condition...

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Sicily’s coastline stretches for more than 930 miles and covers a dozen islands. With the temperatures warm enough for swimming from mid-May to early October, it’s easy to see why locals spend half the year here diving off craggy rocks and splashing about in the dramatic blues of the Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean seas. From pebble shores and...

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He started making music when he was six, even though no one in his family was a professional musician. Growing up, Francesco Le Metre had always music around him, but as a kid he had no idea it was going to become his career. “I started playing piano and then eventually switched over to drums and lastly electric bass,” the Sicilian composer, now 30...

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The palio is a form of entertainment dating back to medieval times. Even today, competitions between the districts are celebrated in the folkloristic festivals of the towns of Italy. In addition to the Palio di Siena, the most famous, in our peninsula we find various events that bring us back to the traditional challenges of the past. In Italy the...

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There are a number of legends concerning the life of St. Agatha of Sicily. The following account is based on the “Passio Sanctae Agathae” written in the fifth century. Agatha was born in the first part of the third century into a wealthy and noble Christian family in Catania, Sicily. She was a beautiful young virgin, and at the age of 15 Agatha exp...

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A unique feature of our U.S. wine market is our eagerness to experiment. While wine drinkers elsewhere tend to stick with a favorite house wine (probably produced not too far from their kitchen table), Americans look for new grapes, new regions, new styles, packages, purchasing options and maybe something new we can't even imagine. So, if you want...

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Residents and municipal teams worked Wednesday to clean up a Sicilian village near Mount Etna after Europe’s most active volcano spewed lava, ashes and volcanic stones. The eruption, which featured spectacular displays of gushing lava, forced the temporary closure of Sicily's Catania Airport, a frequent occurrence when Etna is in an active phase. A...

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While traveling across the pond remains, at least for the moment, still a dream, dreaming and planning aren’t forbidden and, certainly, they aren’t dangerous. On the contrary, busying our minds with something pleasant and oriented towards a virus-free future, may be a healthy and   relaxing way to spend some time.  For many Italophiles, moving to t...

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The district of Trapani offers to visitors artistic and naturalist treasures. Here, we suggest three timeless places to be visited in every period of the year because they are special. In the tip of Sicily, the province of Trapani stretches for 2459.84 km². The vastness of the territory reflects the unity and encounter of the various civilizations...

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In the following article, I will discuss the historical relationship between Sicilian and Italian, and I will attempt to answer the question, “Is Sicilian a language or a dialect?” As this is a touchy subject that involves regional pride, identity, and politics, I will try not to fall victim to that dreaded social disease known as campanilismo, a f...

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