Pietro Sciortino: painter
"Art is the concept and expression of beauty, of freedom and of the human soul, wich transmits emotions through creativity"
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Introducing the Phoenician settlement of the VIII century b.C.
10 July 1831 preceded by very loud roars, a volcanic island suddenly appears in the southern part of the African sea: Ferdinandea (Graham Island in English)
28 June 1867 Luigi Pirandello was born, a Sicilian writer one of the most authentic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934
09 July 1943 the Americans landed in Sicily during second World War.
Istituto Luce video The preparations of the Littorio Theater in Noto, 1932
Sicilian saying “Siddu è veru ca lu munnu gira, di cca avi a passari” that is to say “If it is true that the world turns, it must pass from here”, which means that sooner or later things will work out. If we have been wronged, the moment will surely come when the event will repeat itself in reverse or settle down.
Photos of the past Children dressed as angels placed on a stage on the occasion of the Easter Holy Friday in Francavilla di Sicilia in 1931
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