Tag: sicily tour planning

  • The Arco Azzurro of Mongerbino

    The “Arco Azzurro ” is a natural archway that extends over the blue sea along the coast between Aspra and Mongerbino, Sicily.

  • Afternoon In Sicily

    Nap time at the Archaeological Area of Eraclea Minoa (Agrigento Province) This cat knows the routine. In Sicily, from about 1 o’clock to 4:30/5 o’clock in the afternoon, it’s lunchtime and then nap time. So, do your sightseeing from 9 in the morning, have lunch at 1 o’clock at a family-run trattoria, then head back…

  • Timelessness In Ragusa Province

    Sicily is timeless. (Location: Castello di Donnafugata, Ragusa)

  • Going Far South In Eastern Sicily

    The Ionian Sea on the coast of southeastern Sicily looking at the fort on the island of Capopassero

  • Angelo Is Waiting For Us In Sicily

    “Angelo, arriverò presto!” Italy is now open to vaccinated travelers from the United States, with no need to quarantine when you take COVID-tested flights with Alitalia, Delta, American, and United airlines from New York and Atlanta. Importantly, the mask mandate for outdoors will be dropped on June 28. With about 30 percent of Italians over…

  • 52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #51. Imaginative Ceramics

    Throughout Sicily there are various ceramic centers that developed over the centuries around natural sources of clay. Of course, the raw material is one thing, but more significant, however, are the artists and painters that produce and imagine the remarkable designs and/or playful scenes found on plates, bowls, pinecones, heads of men and women, vases,…

  • 52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #50. Inspired, Creative Accommodations

    Over the last ten years, Sicily’s tourism industry has matured and grown, and the amount and diversity of accommodations available to tourists is abundant. In a city like Ragusa, for example, right here in the old town of Ragusa Ibla, there exists everything from Locanda Don Serafino, an historic hotel with luxurious rooms furnished inside…