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by Alejandro Luque   In spite of still being young, Etta Scolla (Catania 1958) is an authentic encyclopaedia of traditional Sicilian music. Genes, love of her homeland and an insatiable curiosity have conspired to keep this rich legacy alive: alive, that is, not as an archaeological reconstruction, but as a breathing phenomenon, which contin...

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By Michael J. Agovino Italians, like most Europeans, are especially attached to their regions. The fact that Italy — and Spain, Belgium, and Switzerland for that matter — remains a united country is a minor miracle. Nowhere is this regionalism more apparent than in their kitchens.   Sicily's food is a particular product of its history, whic...

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  WTI Magazine #53    2015 February, 6Author : italia.it      Translation by:   As the name says, a "house museum" is a habitation or palazzo that has been transformed into a museum. It could have been the abode of illustrious gentlemen, or of common citizens, site of familiar intimacy or a center of power: that which renders a house museum exce...

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Visiting Italy by train is a lovely way to discover uncharted places. But it can be and more unique if you travel along old and out-of-the-way routes, with old-fashioned trains. It's a new kind of "slow tourism," perfect to enjoy the treasures of Italy more deeply.   The Italian Ministry of Culture has just signed a partnerhsip with Ferrovie...

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by Silvia Donati The star of Italian Carnival celebrations! The first official record declaring Carnival a public celebration in Venice dates to 1296, when the Senate of La Serenissima made the day before Lent a holiday of fun and merrymaking.   In this respect, masks have always been a central component of the Venetian carnival, used to te...

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Workshops will be presented by Gene Fedeli, who has been teaching the Sicilian Tradition of Palm Weaving for the past 20 years.Place: St. Joan of Arc Parish Center - 22412 Overlake St. - Saint Clair Shores, MI 48080. Dates: Monday March 23, 2015. Session 1: from 10:00 AM until Noon. Session 2: from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Tuesda...

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In 1992, twenty years ago, a massive bomb explosion on the highway from the airport to Palermo killed Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three bodyguards. Judge Falcone's friend and colleague, Paolo Borsellino, and five members of his police escort were killed fifty-seven days later by a bomb that the mafia had planted near the home of Borselino...

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By Jonathan Horn   Margaret Balistreri Cesarini was just a teenager when she moved from Sicily to San Diego around 50 years ago. She's been back to her home country about 15 times since then. The trips are an experience that leave her with mixed feelings. "I'm torn between two lovers — I'm an American citizen but I was born in Ital...

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In deep water off the coast of Sicily, scientists have found a large and very mysterious monolith that is believed to have been hewn from rock some 10,000 years ago.   "Considering its shape and length, it can be called a Stonehenge-type monolith, but its age is remarkably older," Dr. Emanuele Lodolo, a marine geophysicist at the National In...

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by Jackie DeGiorgio   Another year, another Michelin guide. Every chef who takes himself and his food seriously dreams of Michelin recognition, and once obtained, an omission or demotion is not taken lightly.   The prestigious dining tome has just bestowed its 2016 honors on il bel paese, which now holds 388 stars divided among 334 re...

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