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Forget themodern roads, and picture yourself walking or riding a donkey,you strayfrom the main paths and suddenly followsomerough trackon the stiff slopesof the valleyover river Agr•, untilyou reach theBasilianmonastery.Forgetevry strain,"everything here isgrace andbeauty, ... calmand voluptuousness"(ThanksCharles), butthere is littleluxuryif not for therefinedarchitectureof thetemple itself...
Even before one talks about its endless artistic patrimony, it is easy to realize that Sicily's first richness is definitely the nature itself.
We suggest as essential for travellers a visit to the botanical garden in Palermo, as well as the discovery of at least one of the natural Parks, oasis and reserves. Sicily, land of overwhelming speculations, deserves to be encouraged in its difficult politics to protect the environment...
Castles and Sicily are inseparable: with exaggerated local pride, I would even say that they have been invented right here, in Syracuse to be precise, by will of Denys the Elder. Sure, some previous thing can be found here and there in the Mediterranean area. But with the castle Eurialo in Syracuse, we enter into the modern ages of strategic defensive works. An exceptional heritage which marks the various stages in the turbulent history of the Island, which was the center of the world until the discovery of the Americas...
Among the men who brought fame to Sicily, few were promised to a glorious destiny. Giuseppe Piazzi must be admired for his humility serving the cause of astronomy, which was not actually a passion of his. And instead Giusepe revealed himself a worthy partner of the most important protagonists of his time, allowing Palermo to be part of the most important "astronomical" cities.
Who visits in Palermo the Palazzo Federico has the privilege to discover the last tower survivor of the Arabic epoch on the walls of defence of the city. In this same place a door existed already in Roman epoch, theater of a puzzling victory which soon became a miliary stone in the slow building trial of the Sicilian identity.
With its history rooted in the Arab Middle Ages, with a Burgundian patron saint, a mountain village with its ancient and beautiful breed of cattle called "cinisara", Cinisi is a village at the very foot of a rocky context, laid on a magnificent country surroundings, by the sea, long the which stands even Palermo airport. Despite all this merits, Cinisi is still bound to its ancestral discretion, will it ever win the bet of its necessary promotion?
Located in anurban contextofthe fascist era,via Isonzoand the neighborhoodaroundthe Fascist popular houses boasts aresidentialappearanceof great serenity.
Discover Palermo, Agrigento and the whole Sicily, a land of plenty marked since the first human settlements by its very special mystique, a case perhaps unique in Europe ...
Source of inspiration for artists of all kinds, Sicily inspired many songs to both local and national artists, as well as many musicians all over the world.
Church willed by Roger II Altavilla's Admiral, George of Antioch, S. Maria seduce a visitor today with the violent contrast and paradoxically harmonious between the Byzantine mosaic of years 1140 and both the 17th century mannerism and the Baroque, particularly in the main apse. An eclecticism reflected even in the three names of the church: S. Mary for the historic monument, S. Nicola from Mira for the place of Eastern Christian worship, the Martorana for the architectural unit entrusted in the 14th century to the Benedictine nuns, which also includes the nearby San Cataldo ...
No doubt. We are in Italy. And Europe is the cultural model... but there's something special in the air, so very special. A continental Italian feels at home only for a part, and the other part feels like it is an other world when he comes in Sicily. So feels the universal lover of Italian way of life: sure, he will find in Sicily the everlasting Italian fascination, but he will remain astonished of the many typical Sicilian shadings. So that they compose an evident difference between island and continent.
Al Edrisi or Ibn Idrisi has to be considered as the father of modern cartography. His masterpiece is the great silvermade planisphere representing the world divided in several climate, huge work lasted 18 years and financed by Norman king of Sicily Roger II Altavilla (1130.1154)
