Sarah Davis-Secord’s Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean asks its readers to consider new frameworks for inquiring about Sicily’s past. The history of Sicily and the ...

Olive, lemon, and almond trees fill valleys between the rocky, wind-blown mountains of western Sicily. Fichi d’india (prickly pear cactuses) line the road from Palermo, where a group of book editors ...

Talking about his latest book, “Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History”, John Julius Norwich, a historian and travel writer, spoke about the detailed history of how the island has changed in ...

Sicily was a tough nut to crack for the Allied forces from Britain, Canada and the U.S., who landed on the enemy-occupied Mediterranean island in the blistering summer of 1943. They came from fighting ...

The 12th-century mosaic of Christ Pantocrator at Cefalu is, to John Julius Norwich, "the greatest advertisement for Christianity that I know anywhere on Earth" Credit: Photo: Alamy 'Sicily," wrote ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Domenico Valenti.” This name is whispered to foreign correspondent Frank Viviano by his ...

If you’ve been keeping up with this year’s travel trends, you might be dreading the idea of planning a full-fledged trip abroad. Flight cancellations and chaotic airport traffic can cast a shadow over ...