Experience Sicily

Category: Travel Tips and Ideas

  • Wine Lovers Take Note! Special Co-host to Join Stirring Sicily Late August Tour

      Experience Sicily is pleased to announce that Benjamin North Spencer, author of The New Wines of Mount Etna and Director of Etna Wine School, will be joining our small-group cooking and wine tour, Stirring Sicily, this August 28 to September 4 as a special co-host. Bringing his profound knowledge of Sicilian wines and experience…

  • Yes, I Love Sicilia

    It is a great honor to be featured in the latest issue of I Love Sicilia magazine with an article by Liliana Rosano and photos by Chiara Musumeci Fotografia (taken along with Claudio Romano and Rosella Di Brigida)! Grazie Liliana! Grazie Chiara! My passion for sharing Sicily through Experience Sicily continues to reach far and…

  • Day 13 of 16 Days of Sicily | A Mother of a Volcano

    In Sicily, she’s known as Mamma Etna. Yes, she is a *she*, if even the word for volcano in Italian, vulcano, is masculine. Etna is a great mother. She is massive, and her influence and impact on life in Sicily – – particularly the east side of the island – – is significant. Etna creates…

  • Day 12 of 16 Days of Sicily | Festivals with Fervor

    Whether it’s in recognition of an abundance of ricotta or the success of the year’s artichoke harvest or a city’s patron saint, Sicilians celebrate with fervor! For example, during these first days of February (3, 4, and 5), in Catania, “cristiani” celebrate their patroness Sant’Agata with one of the world’s most potent religious festivals. Agata…

  • Day 11 of 16 Days of Sicily | Reaction to the Rubble

    During the night of January 14 and 15, 1968 through early February 1968 western Sicily’s Belice Valley experienced a series of earthquakes. It was before the Richter Scale was employed to measure tremors in Italy, so it’s hard to say in those terms how strong they were but know this: it was many seismic events…

  • Day 10 of 16 Days of Sicily | Dancing Dolphins

    The seas of Sicily are glorious. There are three: The Ionian on the east side, the African or Mediterranean to the south, and my favorite, the Tyrrhenian on the north side of the island. They are turquois and lapis and all shades of blue; they are clear and clean; often, they are calm; and in the…

  • Day 9 of 16 Days of Sicily | Get Dirty

    When I was a child, my mother always dressed me in dresses, and I used to get into a lot of trouble because I liked to climb on everything (still do), run around in the mud (still do), dance in puddles (yup), … you get the idea. I used to get my dresses pretty dirty.…

  • Day 8 of 16 Days of Sicily | Location, Location, Location and Breakfast

    Sicily has many, many, many kinds of accommodations. Because I travel throughout the island (in 2022 and 2023, I spent six months over the course of the year traveling just in Sicily), I have seen a lot. Because I travel with clients for much of my time in the field, I know what you are…

  • Day 7 of 16 Days of Sicily | Hyper Regional Cuisines

    Within Sicily there are different cuisines. So, until recently, you would not have found a dish like this one pictured of busiate pasta with red shrimp from Mazara del Vallo dusted with pistachios from Raffadali in Eastern Sicily because its ingredients are typical of Western Sicily. That fact is pretty neat! Couscous is another example…