Experience Sicily

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  • 52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #33. Human Super Heroes

    The blast, which registered on earthquake monitors, was the masterwork of the Sicilian mafia. Falcone was targeted because of his life’s work: arresting, holding accountable, and imprisoning those involved in the plague of organized corruption that had crippled Sicily for decades. Falcone and his fellow prosecutor, Paolo Borsellino, were super heroes, having risked (and subsequently…

  • Giovanni Falcone’s Ideas Remain In Sicily

    Men pass, but ideas remain. Remain as moral strength that lives on in the strides of future generations. “Gli uomini passano, ma le idee restano. Restano le tensioni morali che continueranno a camminare sulle gambe di altri uomini,” said Giovanni Falcone (pictured left). On May 23, 1992, in Capaci, along Sicily’s autostrada between the Punta…

  • Until the Next Time! 

    This evening, my cousin Giulia and I strolled down Via Maqueda in Palermo. It was a perfect evening, my final one for this trip. Bitter sweet as always… Arrivederci Sicily! Alla prossima!

  • La Vecchia: Winter at Quattro Canti

    In Palermo’s historic center two major thoroughfares intersect: Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Via Maqueda. This busy intersection, known as Quattro Canti, is flanked by four 18th century Baroque facades, each with a series of statues: The the city’s former patron saints (prior to Santa Rosalia) at the top, a Spanish king of Sicily (in the…

  • Enchanting Sicily, Day 11: Passeggiata Palermitana

    LIVE from Sicily! | Today we spent the day in Palermo. First stop, my cousin Silvana’s home where we talked with her husband Maurizio and his colleague Geri who are magistrates in Palermo. We learned about organized crime and the work that they do to combat this very real and very disturbing fact about Sicily…