Experience Sicily

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  • Enchanted By Sicily

    During Enchanting Sicily, our group spent a few moments taking in the natural wonder of Scala dei Turchi, or Stairs of the Turks, on Sicily’s south coast near Agrigento. The white cliffs pictured behind us are made of a hard-mud material that is a combination of calcium carbonate and lime mixed with other types of…

  • Cooking in Sicily with A Smile

    Tonight with GoSicily, our Experience Sicily Enchanting Sicily group made traditional dishes: caponata, pasta con le sarde, and biancomangiare. You can watch a portion of our class on our Experience Sicily Facebook page, from our live broadcast, from earlier today. See you tomorrow for another broadcast!

  • Meet Me at the Enoteca

    An enoteca is a wine shop, where one samples wine that is served with the intention that you’ll purchase a few bottles. Often light snacks are served with the wine. This enoteca pictured is at Planeta’s Ulmo winery in Sambuca di Sicilia. Cin Cin!

  • Buon Ferragosto!

    Earlier today I had my weekly Skype lesson with my Italian language teacher in Caserta, near Naples. After our lesson, my teacher Vittorio was on the way to the sea to meet up with his friends for Ferragosto, the most important holiday of the year for Italians after Christmas and Easter. Ferragosto is the more…

  • Google in Agrigento

    Those fortunate enough to have an in with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, or who were invited as VIPs to attend the annual Google Camp, were at “the place to be” last night: Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples. For the third year in a row, Bill Gates (in cooperation with Google Camp) rented the UNESCO…

  • Be Transformed by Sicily in September

    Come with me this September for Experience Siciy’s small-group, multi-sensory Enchanting Sicily tour. It’s 8 days and 7 nights from September 23-30 that will transform you. We’ll visit the Temple of Juno, pictured … And you’ll experience so much more. We’ve got 2 spots left! Learn more at https://experiencesicily.com/enchanting-sicily/. Contact me at AllisonScola@ExperienceSicily.com to join…

  • Sicily’s Rare Goat, the Capra Girgentana

    Distinguished by their spiral, tall horns and long hair, this rare breed of goat, called capra girgentana, is valuable for its milk that possesses an equal amount of fat to protein. The name girgentana recalls the old Sicilian name of the city of Agrigento, Girgenti.  During the mid-twentieth century, throughout southwestern Sicily, girgentana goats numbered…

  • Hidden, Yet In Clear View 

    I’d certainly call the spot in the hills of San Biagio Platini, where I photographed this panorama, a hidden corner of the island. This is how I want you to experience Sicily. 

  • Splurge in Agrigento

    This is the view from our hotel room tonight. On your trip, this is where you splurge on a 5-star hotel … in Agrigento!  Here’s what you are looking at: The Temple of Concordia is named for a Latin inscription that was found on a dedication marker unearthed in the vicinity of the archaeological site–i.e.,…