The Italian island of Sicily is – perhaps more than any corner of Europe – a layer cake of civilizations. On one island, visitors can marvel at a well-preserved Greek temple, admire the glittering ...

Beloved destinations often have overlooked histories. Mic dives into how the past shapes what travelers see today. There's a Sicilian dessert that my Siracusa-born mother used to rhapsodize about.

Experience Sicily’s summer through festivals, beaches, food, and late-night magic. Here’s what I discovered when I finally went—and why the island stays with you. The post What no one told me about ...

The Italian island of Sicily is — perhaps more than any corner of Europe — a layer cake of civilizations. On one island, visitors can marvel at a well-preserved Greek temple, admire the glittering ...

Sicily is one of the pearls of southern Italy, the cradle of Mediterranean culture and home to Mount Etna, temples, archeological sites, rugged mountainside, beautiful beaches and major cities such as ...

Tradition, history and myth are mingled in Sicily as in few other places in the world. This can already be seen in the Strait of Messina, where feluccas, very special boats still used for traditional ...

When travel writer Keahey first visited Sicily in 1986, he discovered that it hardly resembled the bucolic images of peasant men and women hauling huge piles of newly harvested grapes or of donkey ...

During a holiday in Sicily, explore the picturesque coast, volcanic landscapes and fertile wine country - Moment RF/Federico Scotto Through the ages Sicily has been a crossroads and crucible of ...

For anyone who has visited Sicily’s ancient archaeological sites of Segesta, Agrigento and Selinunte, which still boast some of the grandest temples built anywhere in the Greek Mediterranean – or who ...

Relations between Italy and Los Angeles’ J. Paul Getty Museum seemed to be smoothing when Sicily lent the museum antiquities for a major exhibition, “Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome.

The Italian island of Sicily is — perhaps more than any corner of Europe — a layer cake of civilizations. On one island, visitors can marvel at a well-preserved Greek temple, admire the glittering ...