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Your Ticket To Sicily Travel In 2020
No reason to be sad. I’m gonna do right by you. Amunì! I’ve got your ticket to ride. Join me in 2020 for a small-group tour. Use the code YES2020 and pay in-full by February 1, 2020 and receive an additional $150 off of your tour per person. More at Experience Sicily https://experiencesicily.com/2020-tours-of-sicily/. Contact me…
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San Sebastiano Patron Of Palazzolo Acreide
His story is a bit extreme, however, it’s a good reminder to me to keep the faith and get up again over and over. Although San Sebastiano lived and died in Rome, in Sicily on January 20, the early Christian martyr is celebrated with fervor in the towns of Acireale (Catania), Tortorici (Messina), and Barcellona…
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Our Stateside Sicilian Cooking Class With Annalisa
We cooked up a storm inside yesterday with the talented and spunky cooking impresario Annalisa Pompeo of GoSicily Sicilian Cooking Experience for our Experience Sicily cooking class! We made arancine (rice balls) and ricottamasu. I loved having everyone at my home to share a memorable, joyful day. And wow, the rice balls we made were…
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Beaches On Sicily’s South Coast
During Experience Sicily’s Life in A Remote Sicilian Town tour from July 16 to 25, we leave the mountains to enjoy the beaches of southern Sicily. Throughout the week, you’ll have an opportunity to swim, sunbathe, and walk along the shores of the island. The Mediterranean Sea is the body of water on the Sicily’s…
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The Ancient Art Of Basket Weaving In Sicily
Claudio Romano has a deep knowledge of medicinal herbs and wild plants, especially those from the Hyblaean Mountains of southeastern Sicily. Building on his passion for flora, Romano learned the art of basket weaving, a practice that has existed since humans sought containers to keep their foodstuffs and other products. Watching him work and learning…
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Experience Mythic Mountains in Sicily May 2020
During May 2020’s Experience Sicily Myths and Mysteries of Sicily: As Above/So Below tour co-hosted by Tony Allicino, we’ll go deep into the center of Sicily, where you’ll have your breath taken away by one of Sicily’s hidden gems, the stupendous Teatro Andromeda. From the top of the mythic mountains, you will nourish your awareness…
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Feel Like Royalty In Sicily
Castles exist all over Sicily. And on our final day of Experience Sicily’s October 2020 Sicily tour, you’ll have time to ascend the stairs of this one at Castellammare del Golfo after we’ll have taken a boat excursion on the magnificent Tyrrhenian Sea. Inside is an outstanding ethnographic museum. When you cross what once was…
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A Journey In Sicily To Discover Your Vision
“The Cyclopean Walls of Mount Erice” is a painting housed in the Palazzo dei Normanni (Royal Palace) in Palermo by painter Michele Cortegiani (1857-1919), (Oil on canvas, c. 1890). Monte Cofano pictured in the background is a magnificent limestone monolith on the Tyrrhenian coast that you’ll see with this same view when on Mount Erice,…