Rosa Torraca, by email “I finally fulfilled my ambition of reaching Sicily. The highlight was Taormina and the wonderful views of the coastline. This photograph was taken from the Public Gardens, and is my favourite memory.”
The idyllic island of Sicily is renowned the world over for sand, sun and food ? but you may not have heard of its salt? On first glance you may think wheelbarrows seem rather out of place on a Sicilian beach ? however this is salt, not sand, and it really is collected in the […]
Here we have a selection of our favourite blogs on Sicily, including one from an ex-pat, a writer and photographer, and a blogger who left Wales for Italy… WWW.SICILIANGODMOTHER.WORDPRESS.COM The layout of this Sicily based blog may be simple, but the content is certainly worth a look. The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife […]
Grown around – and even on – the slopes of Mount Etna, the grape varieties that thrive in Sicilian soil make some of Italy’s finest white wines. Paul Pettengale investigates… Wine has been a way of life in Sicily for thousands of years. When the Greeks inhabited the island around 1500BC, they brought with them […]