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St. Paul in Palazzolo Acreide...the triumph of Sicilian Baroque

Carmen Consoli in Taormina's theatre....

I was there..unique experience....

a piece of ..me

This painting gives me a sense of sweetness and tenderness... .

Goodbye St. Lucia

Duomo- Chapel of St. Lucia Goodbye Santa Lucia, see you next year!

a (Sicilian) orange a day........

...keeps the doctor away....

after 30 years:Chiesa madre in Palazzolo Acreide

from the lake to the garden....A Quarara

at Case del Biviere -Borghese Garden - Lentini La Quarara era una imbarcazione utilizzataa dai raccoglitori di canne presso il Lago del Biviere -Lentini- Come una enorme padella in ferro, dal fondo piatto, ben si prestava per le acque poco profonde del Biviere. Oggi, idea originale di Donna Maria Carla Borghese, è una bellissimna fioriera nel suo incantevole giardino . ------------------------------- The Quarara , was a kind of boat, made of iron , that fishermen used for catching reeds, as with its flat shape, was good for the swallow waters of the Biviere lake Today, it has become an original large vas for flowers and plants in the beautiful Borghese garden of Donna Maria Carla.

Sweet Merry Christmas at Km 0 - to all of you from Siracusa's tourist guides

Here (from left) Anne-Marie,Rosa,Anna,Enzo, Sabina;Carlo,Elita,Donatella,Carmen and me (on the chair) Sweet Christmas!!! I ciascuna by Rosa, stuffed with dried figs and ...... Here a present from our Sweet chef from the Restaurant 800 in Ortigia: A wonderful Pandoro stuffed with ricotta cream and pistachoes A delicious cake from Elita. made with amaretti & almonds BUONE FESTE!!!   - come to Siracusa

Merry Christmas in Ortigia...

"LE FOTO PIU' BELLE DEI NOSTRI LETTORI" - RagusaOggi www.ragusaoggi.it that's make me happy another pictures of mine this is a view on Ortigia from the bridge St. Lucia.

today...St. Lucia comes back home....

Today St. Lucia , with another procession at the presence of Lucia from Sweden, will be back home, from the Sepolcro to the Duomo in Ortigia....

....and yesterday around St. Lucia's square....

Sepolcro di St. Lucia - tempietto ottagonale- esterno interno: St. Lucia dormiente di Gregorio Tedeschi Basilica di St. Lucia

Ortigia today: around the bridge of St. Lucia

18 gradi... .
my readings these days

Religious reflections

Ogni volta, entrare in Cattedrale ad Ortigia, è un incanto! Resto quasi senza parole.."quasi" semplicemente perchè poi  devo raccontare questo luogo magnifico ad i miei turisti.... Un libro stupendo, da leggere pagina dopo pagina, sulla storia della Sicilia. .. --------------------------- -------------- Each time  I enter into the Cathedral in Oritgia...I'm amazed! I stay  still wordless...just still beacuse then I need them to describe such a magic place to my tourists: a wonderful book, where  page after page, you can read the story of all Sicily.

You're Sicilian when....

  Io, come tanti altri Siculi come me, mi ci ritrovo in pieno....che ne dite? l eggerlo mi ha fatto sorridere.. --------------------------- I received it from a friend and I enjoyed it because it's a faithful portrait of the way we, Siculi, are: at least, I smiled reading it: You are Sicilian when/if  although you are unemplyed and don't have money, you offer coffe to your friends you don't have any job, but you drive around with your luxury car if, although you don't have time, you find it for a smile if, when you meet another Sicilian aroad, you talk to him as a very good old friend if you always complains about your town, but abroad you describe it as one of the seven wonders if you LOVE with passion if you're jelous of the people who are important to you when you "parri cu tutti" ....talk with everybody if you're proud when you talk about Peppino Impastato, Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone if you meet with your family for the...

on Agenda 2012: a year full of tourists?

Agenda 2012 These are my agendas for the future working year..... hoping that 2012 will be full of tourists visiting Sicily...

a nice good morning...

Wake up this morning this way..... These are the pictures in my kitchen...I should put some mew ones..but I don't want to touch these memories.. Nuvola, Pietro, Lorenzo, me and my cummà, postcard from mariella, postcard from Michela,Davide,me some years ago.... I need to put some more... --------------------- Stamane mi sono svegliata così....... con le fotografie appese in cucina.... dovrei aggiungerne di nuove, rimuoverne altre? no, non riesco a toglierle... bei ricordi e bei momenti.. Nuvola, Pietro da piccolo, Ludovica la Principessa, io qualche anno fa, io e la mia cummà...la cartolina di mariella, la cartolina di Michela..Lorenzo,Davide.....ne aggiungeremo altre, piuttosto...

Cultural contaminations part II

Andrea and a Japanese tourist tastin Sicilian pecorino cheese.... I adore this moments!!!

Modica bassa: St. Peter

just two questions...

It's nice when tourists put questions about history, about life ,about everything.... It's nice because ti's a way to interact and I really like if , doing my job I really adore, there's a mutual exchange between me and them... Yesterday I worked with a very nice American family (rare to find a couple  married for more than thirty years and travelling with their child, too) . I had nice time with them and  talked a lot.. Talking about travelling ...He asked me:  (question n. 1) If you were rich, where would you go on holiday...and then where would you live? Later, before saying goodbye, in a very polite way , trying to let me tell him which is the best restaurant in  Siracusa, where I live, He asked me: (question n. 2) Where would you go tonight if this were your last dinner in life?? MAMMA MIA!! MY answers: Question n. 1: I'm so curious about the world that it's hard to choose...but maybe, at the moment, South America and Marocco....and then Japan and Ch...

Rosolini: ready for the 300th anniversary

Rosolini is almost ready to celebrate its 3ooth anniversary of life on 2012... It's a small town in the province of Siracusa, but for many things, closer to the province of Ragusa and not simply geographically...  --------------------- Al confine tra le due province di Siracusa e Ragusa, ed a quest'ultima più vicina e simile non solo geograficamente, Rosolini è quasi pronta per celebrare il 300 anniversario dela sua fondazione la cui ricorrenza cadrà nel 2012|.