Experience Sicily

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  • A Fishing Boat In Porticello Inspires Me To Remember

    Commercial fishing boat in Porticello (Palermo Province), the village where my grandfather was born and lived before emigrating to the United States in April 1913 My grandfather was 17 years old when he emigrated. First, like many from Porticello, he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a marble mason. Eventually, he settled in…

  • Securely Fastened 

    Boat moored at Mozia island.

  • C’è la Luna Mezz’o Mare

    C’è la Luna Mezz’o Mare… “There is the moon in the middle of the sea.” (Song by Louis Prima) Sant’Elia (Fraction of Santa Flavia) at night. (Photo Credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)

  • If Not Her Voice, Her Beauty Lures Me In

    At Aspra, artist Rosalia Biondolillo (I’m venturing to guess it’s Bagheria’s ceramic artist Mirella Pipia.) painted a mermaid on a fishing boat. Although she doesn’t sing like the Sirens from The Odyssey thought to have lived off of Sicily near the straights of Messina, she still lures me in. (Updated: 23 September 2015)