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Donne siciliane.... (di Paola Mentuccia) (ANSA) - ROMA, 23 NOV  16- "Non è stata una storia di vanità, è stata una storia di vita". Letizia Battaglia ha iniziato a scattare foto per pagare l'affitto di un appartamento a Milano, quando collaborava come freelance per il quotidiano di Palermo L'Ora. "Avevo una macchina fotografica e ho raccontato quello che c'era intorno a me". Quella "scatola magica", come lei la definisce, le ha permesso di entrare nelle case, di raccontare la vita più intima delle persone e la storia dell'Italia, di essere testimone dei più cruenti fatti di mafia, della condizione delle donne e di trasmettere al mondo intero il suo tenero sguardo nei confronti dell'umanità...

Fico in via Roma- Ortigia Good luck souvenirs in Sicily   Liberty -Corso Vittorio Emanuele II - Noto

  For  An evergreen aromatic bathroom!!!  Ringrazio Enrico Russino de Gli Aromi di Scicli per avermi concesso la possibilità di scattare e pubblicare queste fotografie...certa di essere perdonata per la stessa (auto)ironica visione della vita!! ------------------------------------ Thanks to Enrico Russino from GLI AROMI in Scicli for giving me the possibility to take and publish these photoes. I'm sure he will forgive me..sharing the same (self)ironic vison of life!

Dolce & Gabbana new collection: a triumph of  the Sicilian culture but too expensive for my pockets! Sicilian Puppets and carts! Gorgeous!

Spring-Summer 2013 Pret a Porter Dolce & Gabbana's.  The trip through Sicily starts from Taormina, along the cost, amidst the rows of beach umbrellas punctuating the seashore to continue with religious processions, town feasts and small traditional handicraft stores selling bobbin lace, puppets and wicker baskets. With Domenico Modugno's Meraviglioso playing in the background, the collection is a celebration of life, colours, cheerfulness but most of all of traditional handicrafts and culture. The show opens with striped dresses, raffia top and full skirts, straw dresses with coral embroideries and closes with a growing crescendo of sculpted wicker bustier dresses . davvero Meraviglioso! Un tributo ai colori reali ed immaginari della cultura siciliana!

How talented musician can make a lovely version of one of the most popular Sicilian folk song Roy Paci is a very good musician from Augusta( Syracuse) becoming successful in Italy in the latest years...

 One of my photoes in ortigia became a papyrus watercolour ! You find it at Galleria Bellomo - via Capodieci, by Flavia Massara a wonderful lady ..the best in making papyrus watercolours in Siracusa. Grazie Flavia! Do still have it? Lo hai venduto ?

 In the heart of Ortigia, which she defines a dream that  can become true, Francesca Nobile works in her Atelier she called LOVE PROJECT.  This name immediatedly recalls what Francesca thinks of ART : art is whatever you make with love| Born in Sicily, coming back from Florence where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Francesca is following her dreams. and she has decided to live them in  her hometown..  She makes everything  with great passion and love.  Her art doesn't simply involves paintings, (she also  teaches to adults and children in her atelier), but also involves graphics and photography.. If you ask her about her sources of inspiration,Francesca tells you that, among painters she likes Schiele, Klimt, Turner & Monet, Kandynsky and many others....but she claims that    also her readings, the movies she loves and the people she daily meet  are inside herself ............ Her works d...