Santa Lucia, Patron Saint of Syracuse
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
Sicily is filled with highly individual urban centres, from the major cities along the coast to the baroque hilltowns in the south-east, and the small villages of the interior. There is no uniformity, with each city presenting its own unique features.
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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