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With family celebrations taking up the winter holidays and the summer a perennial struggle to mesh everyone’s schedules, spring break in Italy can be a great alternative. Schools generally close at least once between March and April, and stay closed for a week (or slightly longer, if you count two weekends); flights are often cheaper during these s...

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When Italians discover that I’m Greek-American, they almost always utter the same thing: “Una faccia, una razza” (“One face, one race”). It’s not just the way we look, or the uncanny similarities in certain words (take, for example, “sabato” or “Σάββατο”, which is the same in both Greek and Italian)—there is a centuries-long history that links the...

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Selinunte did not exist for long, just over two centuries. Yet, the mark she left in the history of the Mediterranean is great and she, just like a beautiful ancient goddess, keeps of giving and surprising, as very recent archaeological discoveries demonstrate. Selinunte was known to the Greeks, who founded it, as Selinus, which came from selinon, ...

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Three of the 16-meter-high columns of the G temple, the pride and joy of ancient Selinus, will be rebuilt to the Selinunte Archaeological Park. The holy building, which is as big as a soccer field, represented 2,600 years ago the monumental proof in stone of the power and richness of the glorious Greek colony founded by the men of Megara Hyblea. St...

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An agora stretching out almost 33,000 square metres, the biggest in the ancient world, that is once again showing its boundaries. The remains of what seems to have been the sacred place of very first Greek colonies in Selinunte, those who arrived after the founder, Pammilus of Megara Hyblaea. Charms and highly refined objects that are the same as o...

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