After years of admiring it from afar, last night, my cousin Giulia and I experienced the Infiorata di Noto, the Baroque town of Noto, Sicily’s annual flower festival. In order to arrive, we sat in a traffic jam of coach busses and cars stuffed with families. I wondered if it was worth it, and asked…
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Let’s Have Lunch
Your table is ready. Marzamemi, Sicily
Long Live Santa Lucia!
Viva Santa Lucia! December 13 is the Feast of Santa Lucia. Devotees wearing green caps process her priceless silver statue and sacred relics through the streets of Oritgia, Sicily. Throughout the march, faithful sing a call-and-response in reverence to their patroness: Viva Santa Lucia! Viva Santa Lucia! (Long Live Santa Lucia!) (Statue of Santa Lucia…
Long Live Santa Lucia!
Viva Santa Lucia! December 13 is the Feast of Santa Lucia. Devotees wearing green caps process her priceless silver statue and sacred relics through the streets of Oritgia, Sicily. Throughout the march, faithful sing a call-and-response in reverence to their patroness: Viva Santa Lucia! Viva Santa Lucia! (Long Live Santa Lucia!) (Statue of Santa Lucia…
Colors in Noto Upclose
One of this year’s flower carpets from Noto’s Infiorata up close. (Photo by Experience Sicily’s local guide Sebastiano Garifo)
Dreams and Colors in Noto
This weekend is the 38th annual Infiorata di Noto, or Noto Flower Festival. This year’s theme is “Sogni e colori del Principato di Monaco” or “Dreams and Colors of Monaco.” Over the last two days, along the Baroque town’s via Nicolaci, different art-school groups have been laying out their mosaic designs of flower petals and…
Saint Martin in Noto
Each province of Sicily celebrates San Martino a bit differently. In Noto, they eat both sweet and savory crispelle, such as the ones pictured, photographed by Niki Masino of GelsominoImports.com, along with cooked wine.
Noto, Oh Noto, Wherefore …
Because balconies in Noto are striking.
Savoring Sicily, Day 6: You are Our Stars
Noto is cinematic! Sweeping staircases and whimsical architectural details prompted ooo’s and aah’s as we walked through the Baroque, UNESCO town this morning, Day 6 of Savoring Sicily. We were fortunate enough to be hosted by a local friend for a granita and brioche at his favorite outdoor cafe (mmmm good!). Meanwhile, Sebastiano Garifo, our…
Hercules Represents Noto’s Strength
The Fountain of Hercules located in Piazza San Domenico in Noto was created in 1757. It was intended to be reminiscent of Bernini’s masterpiece Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Novana, and probably, since he possesses a shield of the city, symbolizes the strength of the community that rebuilt after the devastating earthquake…