Experience Sicily

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  • Make Bread For Saint Joseph March 10 In New York City

    Make bread with Experience Sicily on Sunday, March 10 at Cacio e Vino in NYC! It’s not bread you eat, however, but decorative bread, in honor of Saint Joseph. Like what women do all over southern Italy and Sicily to honor the patron saint of fathers, carpenters, and those who toil for their work, you…

  • Sicily’s Sweeping Countyside

    Licodia Eubea is your home for our July Experience Sicily tour. It is a safe, small town where you’ll enjoy talking with the locals over gelato in the evenings. You’ll be immersed in Sicily through its ancient sites, cuisine, and putting your hands in the dough while making pasta with a local mamma. Be amazed…

  • In Palermo, You May Say, I Want My Mummy!

    Not one of my favorite things, yet for some, it is their absolute favorite thing in Palermo (Tell us your thoughts in the comments!)–is a visit to the Catacombe dei Cappuccini, or Capuchin Catacombs. This series of underground corridors houses approximately 8,000 mummified bodies and skeletons of Palermitani of all ages who died between the…

  • Palermo’s Santa Caterina’s Dizzying Baroque

    The dizzying rococo baroque decorations of the Church of Santa Caterina, built between 1580 and 1596 on Palermo’s Piazza Bellini, feature multicolored marble inlay. The altar, pictured, is lit by the sun through a window at midday.

  • Walking Among Beauty In Sicily

    Horses grazing in the Cava d’Ispica Reserve (Note the ancient caves above them, cut into the limestone) Thanks to Sicilia in Cammino

  • A Diamond In The Mishmash of Palermo’s Cathedral

    When you visit Palermo’s Cathedral, be sure to go around to the north side of it, pictured. To me, the back side posesses the most beautiful architectural elements of the mishmash of styles that make up this temple dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin. The inlaid lava stone designs (AKA intarsias) are from the…

  • Bella Serata: Valentine’s Day Sicilian Style in New York

    Thank you to all who came to our Valentine’s Day Sicilian Style in New York City event last evening! And grazie mille to Chefs Giuseppe Sciurca and Nino Elia and Valeria Signorino and Joe Ravo for teaming up with me to create something so special for Experience Sicily! The cuisine, the wines, the decore, the…

  • A New Reflection: My Sicilian Cousins

    My first trip to Sicily in 1996, pictured, changed my life. When I met my cousins Evelina (Big), Francesca, Evelina (Jr.), and Filippo (not pictured), who were in my age group, my perspective of the world changed. Evelina (on my right) is six months younger than me. We didn’t meet until we were in our…

  • Put On Your Hard Hat And Experience Etna

    Our Experience Sicily clients Eileen and Tony went deep into the earth’s surface with our expert Etna guides, when they entered a pitch black lava cave (Hence, the need for the hard hats and headlights.). Lava caves, also known as lava tubes, are formed during a volcanic eruption, when the outer part of lava flow…