Sicilian art found its own voice and blossomed under the Spanish domination, encouraged and promoted by the Catholic church. This was the period when the patron saints of Sicily, beloved by their local communities, were celebrated in sculpture and paintings. A peak was reached in the baroque era with the redesign of the island’s city centres.
Lucia was martyred in 304, during the persecutions of Diocletian, at the age of twenty-one. Her body remained in Syracuse until 1039 when it was taken first to Byzantium and
In July 1943, British, American and Canadian forces landed in Sicily in the first full-scale assault on Hitler’s Europe. It was a huge operation employing half a million men supported
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