A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

Palermo's Corso Vittorio Emmanuele was recently turned into a street made for bicycles and pedestrians. (Photos by Cain Burdeau/CNS) PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — The “City of the Mafia”? Yes and no. But in ...

Although Italians are rabid fans of their national cuisine, many fear it is swamping their city centres, drowning out local ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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