Olive, lemon, and almond trees fill valleys between the rocky, wind-blown mountains of western Sicily. Fichi d’india (prickly pear cactuses) line the road from Palermo, where a group of book editors ...

Sarah Davis-Secord’s Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean asks its readers to consider new frameworks for inquiring about Sicily’s past. The history of Sicily and the ...

There is another, possible, way to visit Sicily. That is, to follow the traces of the works of street art that, beginning in the Nineties, changed the Sicilian territory – interacting with it – to the ...

The 12th-century mosaic of Christ Pantocrator at Cefalu is, to John Julius Norwich, "the greatest advertisement for Christianity that I know anywhere on Earth" Credit: Photo: Alamy 'Sicily," wrote ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Domenico Valenti.” This name is whispered to foreign correspondent Frank Viviano by his ...

THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE (247 pp.) — Giovanni Verga — Grove Press ($3.50). “Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction after Manzoni,” ...

Sicily was a tough nut to crack for the Allied forces from Britain, Canada and the U.S., who landed on the enemy-occupied Mediterranean island in the blistering summer of 1943. They came from fighting ...

If you’ve been keeping up with this year’s travel trends, you might be dreading the idea of planning a full-fledged trip abroad. Flight cancellations and chaotic airport traffic can cast a shadow over ...

If you’re considering a trip to Italy — and you have deep reserves of patience — Sicily’s tourism office will pay for a chunk of your stay to include the dreamy Mediterranean island in your plans.