This slumbering city is often drowned by big clunky architectures that don’t make her beauty justice. Instead some others speak volumes about the city’s long history and are truly worth a visit. Let’s for just a minute imagine Catania as is used to be: carriages instead of cars, the music from Faust fades away...
Impressionism, the art movement that changed art history, arrived in Catania. An exhibition of oils on canvas, drawings, sculptures, photographs and pottery at Palazzo della Cultura, where you can discover artists’ “secret paths” and the origin of some of their masterpieces. Impressionists used to work en plein air, always trying to set that sense...
Each year on November the 2nd a special occasion is celebrated in Sicily, a mix of materiality and spirituality involving the entire population in a unique way. Between characteristic themes, hidden elements and a short story by the writer Giovanni Verga, the true meaning of this event is more complex than it may seem...
Snail farming for food supply is an example of innovating an historical tradition. Two brothers, Michelangelo and Giuseppe Sansone, assisted by the marketing manager Davide Merlino, had the idea of relaunching snails and created a new method to obtain the delicious snail caviar within months. What if you chose to farm snails instead of...
Archaeoastronomy studies the correlation between ancient building’s orientation and celestial phenomena. On the shoulders of astrophysics and history, it tries to uncover truths long forgotten. The valley of Argimusco, in the province of Messina, holds a great deal of relevance to the discipline and may become an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Andrea Orlando, a...
From the crossroad of Sicilian and American language, a new one came into the world: a hybrid reminiscent of Anglo-American for vocabulary, but adapted to local spelling and phonetics. The first languages of influence to which you may think, when it comes to Sicilian dialect and its origins, are French, Spanish and Italian. Catalan...
Can cinema and excavation coexist in a documentary? It seems so. In fact, we can think of involving more and more spectators and «leading them to otherwise inaccessible places», as Professor Frasca said, by taking advantage of the synergy and the propulsive drive of festivals and exhibitions. «Making a movie is a relatively new...
Sicilian flag is red like lava and yellow like wheat, with three legs like its three edges, but this is not all. This regional symbol has deep historical and religious roots, which make Sicilians what they once were and what they still are, as if it was the chest of their most untouchable secrets
Arab sorbet and Sicilian ice-cream were first exported to Paris and then on to the rest of the world: all thanks to a man few know about, but everyone should be thankful to. «It’s hot, let’s have a gelato!»: we’ve all said it at least once. But if we can enjoy our favourite refreshing...
It is a two-storey house, large enough to hide the windows of the building behind it. But, with its width of just 3 feet, it could be the smallest in the world. This tiny building is located in a Sicilian village in the province of Palermo: it was built in the middle of the...
