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An eruption at Mount Etna sent a violent stream of lava and smoke hundreds of feet into the air above Sicily Sunday night. Volcanic activity was first detected from the southeast crater shortly before 9:30pm local time. The eruption lasted through Monday morning, with a dense ash plume some three miles high and lava fountains … Read more
Sicily is the triple distillation of Italy. The sun is fiercer, the wine stronger, the sweets sweeter, the shadows darker, the baroque more baroque. And, it has to be said, the dirt dirtier. Every writer comments on the island’s severe contrasts: great beauty and the smell of jasmine here, bloodstains and brutal poverty there. The … Read more
A beautiful town in Sicily has become the latest in a growing trend in Italy to see its abandoned homes auctioned off for €1 each to reverse the trend of depopulation. Picturesque Salemi will sell off some of its dilapidated properties for a pittance in a bid to bring people back to the town. It has … Read more
A boy of 11 spent 93 days walking 1,700 miles from Sicily to London with his father so he could give his grandmother a special lockdown cuddle. Schoolboy Romeo Cox set off from Palermo on June 20 with his father Phil, 46, on a journey through Italy, Switzerland and France. The pair fought off a … Read more
Thom Yorke has married his girlfriend of three years Dajana Roncione in Sicily, four years after the death of his ex-partner Dr Rachel Owen. The Radiohead singer, 51, and Italian actress, 36, tied the knot on Saturday at the 18th century villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, reports Italian Vanity Fair. During the celebrations, the happy couple ensured all … Read more
HISTORY SICILY ’43 by James Holland (Bantam £25, 640 pp) Sicily was a tough nut to crack for the Allied forces from Britain, Canada and the U.S., who landed on the enemy-occupied Mediterranean island in the blistering summer of 1943. They came from fighting Rommel’s tanks on the wide open deserts of North Africa to … Read more
Duncan Bannatyne, 71, sports a wrist support to help ease the pain of his arthritis during trip with wife Nigora Whitehorn, 40, to Taormina in Sicily By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 15:49 BST, 7 September 2020 | Updated: 15:57 BST, 7 September 2020 He’s been enjoying a sun-soaked holiday in Sicily, Italy, with wife … Read more
Sicily may be awash with Unesco World Heritage Sites (seven, including Mount Etna) but the unspoilt south-eastern shores of this Mediterranean island have a more contemporary appeal thanks to the success of fictional detective Inspector Montalbano. Jumping from the pages of Sicilian author Andrea Camilleri’s best-selling novels and inspired by his homeland, the TV adaptation … Read more
Sicily will PAY half the price of tourists’ flights, a third of their hotel bill and give away free tickets for museums in bid to lure back holidaymakers after lockdown A €50 million budget will pay for the scheme designed to rejuvenate tourism Vouchers with the offers will be made available on the island’s tourism website … Read more
Italy has confirmed its first case of coronavirus in the south after a holidaymaker from the north fell sick while visiting Sicily with her husband and friends. The 66-year-old woman, from Bergamo, travelled to the Sicilian capital of Palermo on Friday morning before her home region of Lombardy was put on lockdown following a surge … Read more