Sicily

The Italian government has long been wanting to build a bridge between Messina and the Italian mainland. Now it is determined to complete it, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini told his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday. The bridge...

Mick Jagger is vacationing in Sicily as the Rolling Stones rock star says he is taking time off from writing songs for the iconic band. The 79-year-old musician has chosen Instagram, which since 2013 he has used as a sort...

The Vie dei Tesori is a festival supported by the foundation by the same name, that focuses on the discovery of many sites in the Mediterranean that are little-known or closed to the public. And the foundation Vie dei Tesori,...

A new documentary from Michael Cavalieri  will be screened this coming Friday, October 21 at the Columbus Citizens Foundation at 8 East 69th Street, New York. "La Porta dell’inferno" has been screened in Sicily at several festivals this summer.  Michael...

Well, despite the celebrated images from the mosaics in Piazza Armerina, of the ancient Roman girl wearing what looks like a bikini, the answer is, “not really”.  The ancient Roman girls weren’t even first to wear what to our eyes...

This Sunday, October 2, one such social club, the Borgetto Cultural Association--founded in 1962 in Astoria, Queens--gathered at Russo’s on the Bay. A small town of approximately 7,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Palermo, like so many villages that...

Italian-American pop icon Madonna has marked her 64th and her son Rocco Ritchie's 22nd birthdays in Sicily's famed Val di Noto. She chose the town of Pachino near Siracusa for celebrating the birthday of the son she had with British...

Immigrants can be seen in photos, stretched out on filthy mattresses in every corner of the hotspot on the Italian island of Lampedusa, both inside and outside. "Mountains" of trash bags, overflowing with the remains of food and paper waste...