A Pax Mafiosa has settled over Sicily. Sicilians are defying the Mafia in a movement fueled by the generation that came of age in the 1980s, when waves of bloody public assassinations of prosecutors, ...
Few travel moments rival that first encounter with a new city — the instant when its sounds, scents and pulse begin to unfold ...
The move is being viewed as a gesture of reconciliation more than 500 years after the expulsion of Jews from Sicily. (JTA) – The Roman Catholic Church in Palermo is ceding to Jewish ownership the use ...
PALERMO, Sicily – Pope Francis appealed to Mafiosi to renounce their quests for power and money as he visited Sicily on Saturday to honor a priest slain by mob henchmen for trying to protect youths ...
At the foot of Monte Pellegrino and facing Palermo’s harbour, Villa Igiea is a high-luxury hotel and living landmark rolled into one. Sleeping and dining above the art nouveau foyers and halls that ...