Experience Sicily

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  • Day 2 of 16 Days of Sicily | Hiking Through Sweeping Vistas

    I can’t get enough of Sicily’s panoramic walking trails like this one near Custonaci. Often when one thinks of Sicily, s/he pictures seaside fishing villages and beaches. That’s certainly true, but Sicily is mountainous too! And often those mountains are just steps from the sea, so you can get in a dynamic hike, and then…

  • Day 1 of 16 Days of Sicily | Breathtaking Sunsets

    Western Sicily has breathtaking sunsets. During our Soul-stice Sicily Retreat Tour in June 2024, we’ll slow down and breathe in the sunset over Western Sicily’s placid coastal lagoon. Soul-stice Sicily is designed so you can smoothly take the new Neos Air direct flight from NY-JFK to Palermo and spend a week nourishing your soul and…

  • Let’s Chat Tonight Online

    Let’s chat and get our hands in the details! Join me this evening, Tuesday, January 16 at 7:30PM Eastern for a complimentary online presentation about traveling in Sicily. Learn more and register at https://experiencesicily.com/travel-to-sicily-online-presentation-and-qa/.  Here with Gelsomina, I’m making Chiacchiere di Carnevale. When ready, this pastry is a crunchy, sweet, fried dough garnished with powdered sugar. Leading…

  • Curious In Palazzolo Acreide | Join Us Tuesday Online

    I’m curious. I like to notice things like this, the longest baroque balcony in Sicily. It’s found in Palazzolo Acreide. Palazzolo Acreide is one of the eight towns that make up the “Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto” UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sicily has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other region…

  • Join Experience Sicily at the New York Travel Show January 27 and 28

    Experience Sicily will be back at the New York Travel & Adventure Show this January.  Come see us! When: Sat., January 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun., January 28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Jacob Javits Center, New York City Find Experience Sicily all weekend at Booth #239 Join us for Sicilian Folk Music…

  • New York City Sicilian Wine Tasting With Etna Wine School

    Grazie mille to Benjamin North Spencer of Etna Wine School and Cacio e Pepe New York for co-hosting Experience the Wines of Sicily with us yesterday in New York City! Thank you to everyone who attended and spent the afternoon with us! It was a delicious day of spectacular wines coupled with Benjamin’s explanations and…

  • Experience the Wines of Sicily January 6 in New York City

    Please join award-winning author Benjamin North Spencer of Etna Wine School and me, Allison Scola of Experience Sicily, on Saturday, January 6 at 3PM in New York City at Cacio e Pepe restaurant for an afternoon enogastronomic tour of Sicily! That is, a wine tasting! Learn more and register at Experience the Wines of Sicily!

  • Let’s Make Sicilian Fig Cookies!

    Join us online this Thursday, December 14, for a workshop to learn how to make Sicilian fig cookies aka Bucellati, Cudduredde, Cuccidati. These fig cookies are synonymous with the holidays. The complex combination of ingredients points to Sicily’s multi-cultural past. Register and learn more at https://experiencesicily.com/make-sicilian-fig-cookies/

  • The Mystery Of Eyes On A Plate

    You can easily identify Santa Lucia because she holds eyes on a plate. In my last post I mentioned that she denied her promised dowery and hand in marriage to a young pagan man during a period in the early 4th century when Christianity was illegal. Well, she wanted to devote herself to Jesus, and…