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An intense personal adventure, an indefatigable mission serving the poor. Questions flock endlessly, particularly about the role of the Public Institutions, but in any case, Biagio's crusade is firmly anchored in Palermo. It means three missions open daily for the underprivileged.
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 ...
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...
Mon Amour Films and Jean Paul Barreaud discover the most secret Sicily, with its ever changing countryside, its villages where visitors often receive a very warm welcome, and where it is not uncommon to be amazed by a patrimony worthy of a museum ... New material!
Vincenzo Bellini is born in Catania but found his major success in Paris, where he died 34 years. He is buried in both Paris and Catania, Père Lachaise cemetery and Sant'Agata cathedral, because France gave back the remains to his fatherland on the condition both monument and tomb remained even in Paris.
The chance for Peter Novelli has been to find himself ready when Flemish master Van Dyck exercised his art in Palermo, for a few months. He indeed assimilate this and others knowledge typical of the "new manner", having learned before the typical fees of the previous century (1500). For this reason, Pietro Novelli has to be seen as the absolute leader and most illustrious figure of the Sicilian Mannerist painting in the 17th century.
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)
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 ...
Beacon in Lampedusa island
Photo by Mario di Chiara
