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  • Sicilian Folk Music Concert This Sunday On Zoom

    Concert on Sunday! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/sicilian-folk-music-concert/ Yes, this too is Sicily … On a snowy January day in Palermo Province (2019). The weather outside is frightful, and so, listening to an online concert-lecture of Sicilian folk songs with a bonus rendition of “Winter Wonderland” and more will be perfect this Sunday, Dec. 20 at 3pm…

  • Southeastern Sicily’s Iblean Mountains

    The Iblean Mountains of southeastern Sicily, pictured in the background, hold the energy of many ancient peoples. The most significant prior to the arrival of the Greeks, were the Siculi (Sicels in English), who historians believe arrived in Sicily from the middle of the Italic penisula circa 1200 BCE. The limestone Iblean (or Hyblean) mountains…

  • Mountain View In Sicily

    Sicily’s Sicani Mountains with the village of Sant’Angelo Muxaro, Agrigento Province in the middleground

  • Palermo Panorama

    A view of la Chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Teatini from la Chiesa di Santa Caterina di Alessandria, Palermo, Sicily (with the mountains of Monreale in the background)

  • The Hill Across From Enna

    Panorama featuring the town of Calascibetta from Enna, in the center of Sicily

  • The Jewel Of King Iblon’s Mountains

    The baroque city of Ragusa Ibla, Sicily as seen from the Iblean Mountain countryside

  • Enjoy Sicily’s Mountain Views

    Let’s sit and enjoy the view! During our October 2020 Stunning Sicily tour, you’ll have an opportunity to go off the beaten path and into the mountains of Sicily, where you’ll comune with nature and the locals (both people and sheep!). After time in Taormina and Siracusa, you’ll enjoy discovering this hidden corner of Sicily.…

  • A Day In The Mountains | Stirring Sicily, Day 6

    Live from Sicily! Stirring Sicily, Day 6: A Day in the Mountains..Breathtaking views over Caccamo and Termini Imerese, a farm visit (tasting fresh ricotta out of the cauldron and tomatoes off the vine!), grilling up the freshest sausage you’ll ever taste (we watched (and helped!) the butcher make it, we bought it, we grilled it!),…

  • Castronovo Di Sicilia: The Golden Heart Of Sicily

    In the heart of Sicily, Castronovo di Sicilia is tucked between the Platani River, Mount Kassar, and the Mount Carcaci Nature Preserve. Although in Palermo Province, it feels very much part of the Sicanian region that is to its south, probably because of the activity along the ancient thoroughfare — the Platani River — that…