In 2020 Agrigento has an unusual celebration – its 2600th anniversary. Founded in 580 BC by men from nearby Gela, the city grew on the
An intriguing monument from the Norman era has re-opened to the public in Palermo. Situated to the south of the city, on the approach to
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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