Experience Sicily

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  • Discover Eastern Sicily With Synchronous Chocolate Tasting

    Let’s eat chocolate from Sicily while dreaming about traveling there! Join Experience Sicily on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 7PM Eastern for an online presentation about Sicily travel with a synchronous chocolate tasting. Sign up for Zoom meeting is complimentary. The artisanal chocolate (As is made in Modica, as in this photograph I took last summer.)…

  • Sicily’s History Offers Us Knowledge For Today

    Sicily’s history offers us many lessons. Since the 13th century Modica (pictured) has been a prosperous and important city. For centuries it was the seat of its own county that enjoyed political independence and economic and cultural influence. The resource-rich surrounding landscape with agriculture as its economic engine has made Modica and Ragusa province wealthy…

  • Modica, Sicily And Saint Peter And Saint Paul

    Today is the feast day of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Peter, of course, is the protector of Rome (and popes too). But importantly (For my family especially, since my father is named Peter and I come from a long line of fishermen), he is the patron saint of net-makers, shipbuilders, and fishermen, and…

  • Wheat Fields In Ragusa, Sicily

    Stone walls mark the fields where the wheat harvest in the countryside of Ragusa province is now taking place.

  • People Watch In Sicily

    People watch, find a sanctuary, and take a stroll in the Giardino Ibleo, Ragusa Ibla’s picturesque public garden. Walk to the other end from the garden’s entrance for magnificent panoramas of the Hyblean countryside. It’s one of many beautiful public gardens in Sicily and my favorite. Other major ones are the Villa Comunale in Taormina,…

  • If These Hills Could Talk: Ragusa Ibla and Ragusa, Sicily

    Ragusa in southeastern Sicily is comprised of the old town of Ragusa Ibla (pictured) and the new city of Ragusa. Both sections of the city, which are on opposite hills, were rebuilt after the massive and distructive 1693 earthquakes. Ragusa is part of the UNESCO site the Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto,…

  • Beautiful Baroque Balcony In Sicily

    Baroque balcony in the UNESCO recognized town of Scicli, Ragusa Province, Sicily

  • Morning Sun In Ragusa Ibla, Sicily

    Early morning in Ragusa Ibla Thank you to a.d. 1768 Ibla Hotel for the room with the view.

  • Cava D’Ispica, The Canyon of Ispica

    Cava D’Ispica (Ispica canyon nature reserve and archeological site) overlooking Rifugio Scirocco in the Iblean Mountains of southeastern Sicily