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THE BEST OF SICILY

October 22nd, 2023Sylva0 Comments

Sicily will get under your skin! It’s highly addictive and now I know that one visit will never be enough for you like me. I guarantee it! Besides the famous monuments from the times of the Greeks and Romans or the amazing buildings of the later Baroque era, Sicily will offer you a beautiful landscape. If you’re a beach lounger, you’ll be in for a treat too. The sea here is a beautiful turquoise blue. The island has always been an important strategic point, inhabited by various conquerors such as the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans, French and Spanish. Maybe I’m …

FOLLOWING THE MAFIA IN SICILY

October 16th, 2023Sylva0 Comments

When I was a kid, there was an Italian crime series called Octopus about the Sicilian Mafia. The main character was a police inspector named Corrado Cattani, who of course was trying to catch the mobsters. The comparison of the mafia to an octopus is really amazing and realistic. Each of its tentacles has its own nervous equipment, a kind of “brain” that controls it. This allows the tentacles to move independently. And if you cut off a tentacle, it doesn’t hurt the octopus and over time it grows a new one. And so it is with the mafia. In …