The Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa urbana built in the first quarter of the 4th century and located about 3 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. It contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in
One of the world’s largest and most interesting mosaic covered surfaces can be admired in the Cathedral of Monreale, a city located near Palermo in Sicily. Financed and created by the Norman-Sicilian king William II, called “Il Buono” (the Good), the artistic area that we
“Calatenixet …resolvitur Castrum foeminarum” (Goffredo Malaterra, De rebus gestis Rogerii Calabriae et Siciliae comitis et Roberti Guiscardi ducis fratris eius). A curious city, at the center of everywhere and nowhere at the same time. A no place full of human ingenuity and history, fundamental elements of
Part I - Bacharach and a small piece of Sicily. The middle valley of the Rhine is an area at the limit of survival for the vine. Riesling, the German grape variety which is at home here, reigns sovereign in this 80 mile (130 kilometer) stretch
Wine and crystal stemware. A triumph which is esthetic and epicurean at the same time. The last thirty years of the culture of dining have been revolutionary ones: now both connoisseurs and professionals know the wine glass, a fundamental element in the pleasure of tasting
Panarea, the most glamorous, the most cosmopolitan island of the Aeolian archipelago. It is the Island where you walk barefoot and wear silk clothes printed with oriental designs. It was the first Aeolian island to be discovered, thanks to the cinema, by an ample group
In one of the loveliest hamlets in Italy, perched on a hill which dominates the surrounding countryside, the fifth edition of the cultural-gastronomic event Memories and Traditions was held. The “set” of this fascinating revocation of the past was Gangi, a town in the high
Save the Date. "Il Giorno che il Grillo" Mozia Island, June 25 An event organized by Consorzio DOC Sicilia For more information please contact: social@consorziodocsicilia.it
The Radicepura Garden Festival 2017, to be held at the Piante Faro greenhouse of Mario and Michele Faro in Carruba di Riposto (in Sicily’s province of province of Catanaia), will bring, for the first time, an international showcase of garden design to the center of
Open Cellars (Cantine Aperte) is the most important wine tourism event in Italy. Since 1993, member wineries of Movimento Turismo del Vino open their doors to personally meet the public on the last Sunday in May. Over time, Open Cellars has become a philosophy, a way to