Antique Noto and Noto...from PreHistory to the most famous Baroque in Italy

While antique Noto (NOTO ANTICA) offers ruins ranging from prehistory through the greek, Roman, medieval time... until the earthquake of 1693 when the city was shattered.

the actual NOTO is undoubtedly the most visible symbol of the Sicilian baroque heritage of UNESCO. A flurry of monuments with the beautiful local limestone

FAKE FRUITS..OR REAL delicious SWEETS? MARTORANA marzipane in Sicily, Italy.

Martorana Marzipan Fruits..

MARTORANA Fruits..Sicilian Pastry
In 1537 Charles the V visited Palermo.
The nuns of a church wanted to shw him their garden...BUT it was JUNE and the trees were empty..no fruits..
The sicilian nuns had an idea, and finally they showed him a beautiful and well tended garden, full of oranges made of almond paste and colors, giving the garden a more striking and beautiful effect.
They invented the fruits of MARTORANA (marzipane). The monastery took its name from its founder, the noblewoman Eloisa Martorana.

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Good..and Bad habits of Sicilians..being an islander in and out of Italy!

Habits of Sicilian People

1 We eat lunch (around 1 p.m. -sometime later) and dinner (around 8,30 p.m. - often later), often profusely.
2. .....
12 Mothers and sisters are untouchable. Sicilians are mamma's boys people and remain under the skirt of their mothers even after marriage.
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"HOLES" in the MOUNTAINS? ..PANTALICA, the Archaeological Site in Sicily GOT THEM!

Pantalica, UNESCO World Heritage

‎If we needed a POSTCARD OF PREHISTORY, this would be PANTALICA.

UNESCO World Heritage, Pantalica is a necropolis of 5000 tombs escavated in prehistoric time probably with the aid of ropes in the sheer cliffs of a canyon formed over thousands of years of erosion by the river Anapo that runs deep lush and sinuous.

FISHES and SHELLS on the TOP of the MOUNTAINS: the HISTORY of SICILY!

Sicilian hinterland mountains were, 5 million years ago, the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Fish in the Sicilian Fishmarkets..

There are many fishes on the stands of the fishmarkets in Sicily!
Market stalls are full of tipycal seafood(vongole (clams), ricci (sea urchins), ostriche (oysters) , fasolari).

A Sicilian habit consists in using it and, of course, the fish as condiment for pasta.
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Catania..MANY Cities under the LAVA, LAYER by layer, CENTURY after century

CATANIA, Sicily..MANY CITIES under the LAVA, LAYER by LAYER, CENTURY after CENTURY...
Someone also says:"the DARKest city in the world"..well, our LAVA is DARK!

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the FIRST BIKINI in HISTORY...Mosaic in Piazza Armerina, Sicily!

Piazza Armerina, Sicily

..THE FIRST BIKINI in HISTORY!! WOW!

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MESSINA, earthquake after earthquake..still up!

MESSINA still up after the earthquake..
Messina is the Sicilian town nearest to Italy, from which is only 3.2 km. Here is the northern tip of Cape Peloro. Messina has a history of earthquakes that three times (the last in 1908) have flattened it.
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy.. city of many Dominations (History or Actuality?)

PALERMO... 3000 years of history and a dozen different peoples: prehistoric, PHOENICIAN walls, the ARAB-NORMAN buildings, gardens and traces of MOSQUES, ARAGON doors, BAROQUE architecture, narrow streets and neighborhoods of the ISLAMIC imprint ... HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE?

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The Little Islands around Sicily, Italy

Little PARADISES around the main SICILY ISLAND.
..nature, vulcanoes, lot's of fun!
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COLORS OF SICILY: the SKY, the SUN and the SEA!

The sky and the sea have almost primordial tones, without a shred of pollution (especially the sky). The sky is red like the oranges of this land.
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Traditional Sicilian RECIPE: Agglassato

Chef Silvana, mammaSicily

SICILIAN CUISINE, Traditional Recipes "AGGLASSATO" SILVANA RECUPERO, THE SICILIAN CHEF, MAKES THE "AGGLASSATO" FOR RAIUNO TELEVISION.

THE OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM:

One of the most picturesque habits of the people of Sicily..

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Taormina: Pearl of Sicily

Absolute pearl of Sicily, TAORMINA has monuments from any civilization, beautiful at every corner.

It is for many tourists the most beautiful place in Sicily (Palermo being the most relevant historically). In Taormina everything is perfect, everything is beautiful. The proverbial shining colors of Sicily are brighten when seen from here; Etna could not have a more exciting Panorama, the sea is deep blue. It sounds like a joke but visit it and then tell me ...

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SICILIAN PEOPLE..the BEST PART of SICILY ISLAND

Sicilian People are very hospitable.

A Sicilian always gives an answer to an information requested.
We are very Mediterranean, for our passion and hot blood and also for a certain cunning, often exaggerated.

SICILY: daughter of many DOMINATIONS

The Island has experienced various dominations: Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, Aragoneses … before being since 1860 part of Italy.

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