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  • High Ho Folk Art!

    The bridle gear and breastplates created for the horses that pull the Sicilian carts are elaborate extensions of the carts’ decorations. This detail gives you an idea of this other form of folk art.

  • Sicilian Vacation

    Capo Zafferano from Sant’Elia. We have two spots left on this September’s Enchanting Sicily small-group tour! More at Experience Sicily http://experiencesicily.com/2015-tours.

  • Collecting Water

    The ruins of the ancient city of Solunto high up on the slope of Mount Catalfano show a sophisticated use of gravity for water collection, as illustrated here by what is left of a large public cistern that sits at the end of the main street. Founded by the Phoenicians circa 700 BC and then…

  • Sea and Earth

    The Tyrrhenian Sea photographed from Porticello with San Calogero Mountain in the distance.

  • Wish You Were Here

    Capo Zafferano from Porticello’s fishing port. (Photo Credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)

  • Little Port

    Cove at Porticello with Capo Zafferano in the background. (Photo credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)

  • Dancing in the Street

    Musicians and dancers from Santa Flavia’s Gruppo Folk Soluntum perform traditional Sicilian folks songs–here on tamburello (frame drum/tambourine), friscalettu (reed flute), and fisarmonica (accordion)–for a crowd of onlookers in Porticello.

  • Bright Paint, Small Town

    A home on via Roma in Porticello.

  • Porticello from Solunto

    Porticello from Monte Catalfano and the ancient city of Solunto. The Phoenicians, who settled on the top of Monte Catalfano several hundred centuries BC, knew a good view when they found one!