Taormina Film Fest – Location The natural setting of Etna is undoubtedly one of the most evocative things of the location where the Taormina Film Fest takes place. During the event the whole city of Taormina becomes an open-air location: from the congress palace to the ancient Greek theater. In fact, the exhibition takes place […]
The testimony of Sicilian Blog of the experience lived at the Pollina Premium Resort. We would like to underline that in order to make our judgment – and therefore our experience – as real as possible we did not come into contact with the property previously and we paid everything at the current rates. Arrival […]
The Sicilian countryside extends for kilometers in the hinterland of the island, also touching points near the sea. The inland provinces certainly enjoy the privilege of huge cultivated spaces in which the colors and the alternation of crops play a key role in bringing the true hedonistic experience to life in Sicily. The farms between […]
As you will have seen on our Facebook page this week, from 21 to 23 February, I dedicated it to a tour in the most representative areas of the province of Trapani. It was exciting to see some fantastic places that I had already told you about and that I had lapped in the past […]
If you are a sea lover and you are in Catania you will be pleased to know that not far from the capital of Etna there is a spectacular place to dive into the blue Ionian sea: the beach of San Marco and Calatabiano. Place for campers, fishermen or those who want to spend a […]
The Capuchin convent in Palermo, in the Cuba district, is annexed to the church of Santa Maria della Pace. Church and convent date back to the 16th century, although built on earlier structures. In the basement there are the famous catacombs of the Capuchins in Gothic style, so called but in reality cemetery and not […]
The Gole dell’Alcantara , also known as the Larderia Gorges, are located in the Alcantara Valley in Sicily where the Peloritani mountain range ends between the municipalities of Castiglione di Sicilia and Motta Camastra. These are rock formations and natural canyons that wind in the southern province of Messina, near Taormina. Description of the Gole […]
The archaeological park of Selinunte is the testimony of the ancient Greek settlement along the banks of the Modione river. Today it is the largest archaeological park in Europe. The structure of Selinunte In the archaeological site, on the acropolis there are some temples along with other secondary buildings, while other temples are located on […]
Villa Palagonia, known as the “villa of the monsters”, is an eighteenth century walled building located in Bagheria, Sicily. “Mirrored in those crystals and in the same one singolar magnificence contemplates of fracture mortal the expressed image. “ Writing at the entrance of the Villa History of Villa Palagonia It was built starting from 1715 […]
The temple of Segesta is a Greek temple of the ancient city of Segesta, located in the archaeological area of Calatafimi Segesta, an Italian municipality in the province of Trapani in Sicily. “The position of the temple is amazing: at the top of a wide and long valley, at the top of an isolated hill […]
