Category: History & Heritage

A Hollywood premiere in an ancient Greek theatre. Russell Crowe thanked Sicily in Italian.

Sunday lunch at my mother-in-law's, a four-ingredient pasta, and the opera that gave it its name.

The Aci towns all share a name, and it goes back to a shepherd, a sea nymph, and a very jealous Cyclops.

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