Montalbano: Sicily’s Own Police Inspector
Sicily is home to some of Italy’s best known and successful writers. To name just a few, but there are many more, Luigi Pirandello from Agrigento, won the Nobel Prize…
Anglo-Sicilian Observations
Prompted by some comments during an interview with the Anglicised Sicilian lawyer and writer, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, we thought we would take a look…
The International School Palermo now has IB Accreditation
We are very pleased to announce that CEI International School Palermo (ISP) has achieved IB accreditation (International Baccalaureate). As parents of one of the younger students…
Cum Laude: The Fashion Brand “Made in Sicily”
May the 7th, 2013 In this Spring/Summer will come to life Cum Laude. The Fashion brand “Made in Sicily” wants to develop eco-sustainable fashion, balancing modernity…
Interview Roy Paci
Roy Paci was born in Augusta near Siracusa. He is a trumpeter, song writer, arranger and singer. He started playing in the traditional bands of his region. During the nineties…
The Phoenicians in Sicily
Author of Motya, journalist and broadcaster, Gaia Servadio, takes up the story of the Phoenicians in Sicily, starting with the Roman poet Virgil’s Aeneid and Queen Dido of Tyre. …
IDentifying Your Ancestral Town
Censuses give a person’s age in the census year, from which an approximate birth year can be determined. In addition, often the following information is listed: date…
The Giant Artichoke
We know that in Australia there are a lot of ‘big things’ around the country in all sorts of unexpected places – the big lobster, the big banana, the…
Sicily: The Best Kept Secret
By Onat Claypole We met Professor Gaetano Cipolla in March 2011 at an Arba Sicula event on the campus of St. John’s University in Queens, New York. The event…
La nuova passegiata? To what extent do Italians participate in cyberspace?
Italy has inspired and influenced the world for over two thousand years. It has generated composers, sculptors, and poets. It has awed the known Western world with its military…