Gianfranco Salonia, puppeteer
"The Sicilian puppet is a work of art between history and fantasy that recalls the childhood stories of every Sicilian"
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In the State Archives of Palermo, the oldest paper document in Europe is carefully kept. An extraordinary union of Arab and Norman Sicily.
As usual every week Sicilians wrote to us from all over the world asking us to go in search of their roots, their ancestors. And above all they ask us to go looking for their relatives here in Sicily. And as usual, our cultural department mobilizes to make their dream come true and organize their journey in search of the roots.
Palermo is hosting the extraordinary Body Worlds Vital exhibition, the most visited traveling exhibition in the world.
Sicily is full of Giudecche, or the neighborhoods where the Jews lived and where they carried out their activities, often as confined ones.
10 March 2019 Death of Sebastiano Tusa
Istituto Luce video Giro di Sicilia car race, 1931
Sicilian saying Dammi tempu ca ti perciu
Traveller of the past Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, who travelled Sicily in 1787
Reportage
The wild doctor
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