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Agrigento capital of culture 2025

Hospitality and mobility at the center of the project that led to the city’s candidacy Agrigento will be the Capital of Culture 2025. The city presented the project entitled “The self, the other and nature. Relations and cultural transformations”, beating the competition of the other 14 cities competing for the competition of the Ministry of Culture. The project, in which, in addition to the city, Lampedusa and the municipalities of the territory are present, explores the harmony and conflicts between the 4 elements of Empedocles (Greek philosopher of the fifth century BC) through 44 projects, 17 of which are international, to investigate the relationships between human beings in a perspective of peace with nature. That Agrigento has become the Capital of Culture is not surprising at all: few cities in Italy and in the world have such a rich history, which starts from Magna Graecia and arrives to the present…

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Beaches

The beach of Tindari and the lakes of Marinello

The miraculous birth of one of the most beautiful and famous beaches on the north coast of Sicily A strip of sand that cuts the sea in two, starting from a rocky ridge at the top of which there is a sanctuary that attracts many believers every year. At the foot of the promontory, to further embellish this scenario, there are small lakes that change according to the tides. A unique scenario as only Sicily can offer. We are talking about the beach of Tindari within the Marinello Lakes Reserve. Tindari is a hamlet of Patti and is located in the province of Messina, between Milazzo and Capo d’Orlando. The beach, known as Marinello Olivieri, is one of the most famous in the whole region both for its conformation and for the legends that are handed down about its birth and the sanctuary above it. Looking at it from above,…

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Villages

Return to the past among the streets and views of Erice

Walking in the medieval village nicknamed “the city of a hundred churches” will take you back in time Sicily offers tourists places to travel through time and history, among enchanting landscapes and breathtaking views. Among these places, a place of honor is reserved for Erice, a small medieval village located above the city of Trapani, from which it is connected both by a road and by a cable car which, starting from the provincial capital, takes you to the top of the mountain, showing more and more the panorama of the gulf and the Trapani salt pans. The history of Erice is very ancient: it seems to have been founded in the eighth century BC by the Elymians, the people born from the union of the local populations with the exiles from the city of Troy. Later disputed by the Carthaginians and Syracusans, it became a stronghold of the former,…

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Nature

The Etna park, where ice and fire generate new life

We leave for an excursion to the highest active volcano in Europe and its natural park, where opposites come together to create places of incomparable beauty Fire and ice, destruction and life, ash and vegetation… Opposites attract, mix, and unite to create a constantly changing environment that hosts life where everything seems inhospitable. The Etna Park is a place full of charm and mystery, where nature generates as much fear and respect as it does amazement and wonder. Created by decree of the President of the Region on 17 March 1987, the Etna Park was the first natural park to be established in Sicily. An obligatory choice to defend nature which had been under assault since the 60s, when the spread of personal means of transport had seen an important increase in tourism above “a Muntagna” (as Etna is called by the inhabitants of neighboring towns). The natural park includes…

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Wine

The prince of vines on Etna: nerello mascalese

A wine with an international success that was born overlooking the sea from the terraces created on the sides of the volcano Etna, as we could see in the article on its Natural Park, is not only lava and ash but also a great source of life. From the large summit lava deserts we move on to areas where nature dominates unchallenged. In Zone B, which descends from 1880 meters to 640 meters above sea level, agriculture has developed, with terraces created on the sides of the volcano that also host important vineyards. The prince of the vines on Etna is Nerello Mascalese or, in Sicilian, “Niuriddu Mascalisi”. The name “mascalese” derives from the area of origin, that of the Piana di Mascali, which is located on the eastern side of Etna, between the sea and the volcano, while “nerello” is due to the dark and intense color of its…

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From the experience and passion of the De Bartolis, De Bartoli Etna (DBE) is born: doc wines with a strong etnea identity

De Bartoli embraces eastern Sicily by producing Nerello Mascalese in the high-altitude vineyards on the northern side of the volcano or to market very high-quality wines Advertising – A life spent among the vineyards, taking care of the land and harvesting its fruits; forty years of experience, handed down through generation, linked to sensitivity and respect for the territory; the desire to get rich with a new high-altitude challenge. De Bartoli Vini  embraces eastern Sicily and creates a new brand, De Bartoli Etna  (DBE), with the aim of producing wines with a strong Etna identity.  “We felt the need to produce new high-quality red wines – explains Renato De Bartoli, son of Marco De Bartoli, founder of Marco De Bartoli Vini, and owner, together with his siblings Sebastiano and Giuseppina, of the family company, “and in 2021 we bought a small property of just under three hectares in the Rampante…

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Recipes

Martorana fruit

Art and tradition in the kitchen Ingredients for about 24 fruits500 almond flour400 powdered sugar60 g glucose1 vial of almond aroma1/2 vial of vanilla flavoring1 pinch of cinnamon (optional)50 ml water at room temperature – if needed add 5 ml You will also needFood colors yellow, green, red, brown, orangestarch to taste1 solution of 95% food alcohol + water (50% alcohol and 50% water)brightener (food paint)leaves for decorationroyal icing to taste for the decorationdark chocolate to taste for decoration Utensilsplaster mouldsbrushes of various sizesdisposable glovesplastic wrap Procedure Put the almond flour and icing sugar in a bowl. Rub the two ingredients with your hands to mix them.After a few minutes, add the glucose, vanilla flavoring, and almond flavoring.Pour the water over the mixture a little at a time and knead for a few minutes, first with a spoon and then with your hands. It is important not to knead for…

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The interview

Salvatore Burrafato: “The Falcone Borsellino airport can apply to be a mediterranean hub”

The president of Gesap talks about the important investments that the company is making to guarantee an increasingly bright future for Palermo airport Only a few months have passed since his inauguration as President of Gesap, the management company of the “Falcone Borsellino” International Airport in Palermo, but Salvatore Burrafato can already draw up an initial balance, thanks to the incredible performances of 2023 compared to the number of passengers transiting from the airport, and can chart the course for the future of the Palermo airport. A future that will see important investments, both from an infrastructural point of view and from that of the services offered. The declared goal is to make the Falcone Borsellino, thanks also to its strategic position, the Mediterranean airport hub par excellence. Here is the interview released exclusively for Amazing Sicily. What are the results you have achieved since becoming president of Gesap that…

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News

IMPOP Archetypes: photography and painting meet in a contemporary art exhibition at Falcone Borsellino airport

The Palermo airport hosts six great works by the artists Francesco Domilici and Arrigo Musti From September to December 2023, Falcone Borsellino Airport hosts IMPOP Archetypes, a contemporary art exhibition set up along the large corridor that connects the arrivals of the Palermo airport with the subway station. The exhibition consists of six works, each measuring 2 by 3 meters, a synthesis of photography and painting by the artists Francesco Domilici and Arrigo Musti, and is curated by Domenico De Chirico and Aldo Gerbino. Francesco Domilici brings to the stage some of the archetypes for which the Mediterranean area is historically recognizable in the collective imagination: to do so, he draws, with his photographs, from a reservoir of images of rural and maritime panoramas, with the professions connected to them.Arrigo Musti uses these images as a support to add a lysergic and brilliant painting, made with enamels, which refers to symbols,…

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News

Catania Airport: flights increasing by 20% for winter 2023/2024

Torrisi: “A significant increase in flights to satisfy the expectations and needs of passengers” SAC announces that there will be 26,312 aircraft movements expected for winter of 2023/2024, compared to 21,674 thousand last season, numbers that mark a significant increase of 20% in flights and activity at Catania airport. The data announced by the company that manages the airports of Catania and Comiso, heralds a general strengthening of Sicilian infrastructure for the 2023/2024 winter season. The strengthening of SAC’s offer is due to four factors: the increase in the number of operations of the Ryanair company by almost 25% compared to last winter (10,574 movements against 8,438), the increase in flights of the Hungarian carrier Wizz Air (4,526 movements against 3,445, +31%), and of the two Italian companies ITA Airways (4,144 movements against 3,662, +13%), and Aeroitalia. Aeroitalia itself, which began its activity at the end of last season with…

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