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The
town of Buscemi, perched on a
hill a few kilometres from
Palazzolo, possesses a singular
and interesting museum, I Luoghi
del Lavoro Contadino ("Peasant
Work Places"), the rooms of
which are scattered all around
the town. Substantially there
are eight rooms that present the
work and life of the people of
the Hyblaean Mountains, ranging
from the workshops of the
blacksmith, the cobbler, and the
carpenter.
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 Along
the road that runs from Trapani to Paceco and Marsala, skirting the lagoon
of lo Stagnone where Motya lies, it is possible to see numerous dazzlingly
white mountains shimmering in the sun. These are not snow-capped mountains
but hills of salt, one of the Sicilian economy's historical resources that
was already very precious in the days of the Phoenicians.
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 A
double murder that at the time touched public opinion and caused great scandal,
passed down to posterity in a little poem in Sicilian dialect entitled "The
Bitter Case of the Baroness of Carini" - has consigned to popular legend the
name of this castle, built between 1075 and 1090 during the reign of Roger II.
In these very rooms, overlooking the Gulf of Carini, on the fourth of December
1563, Laura Lanza and her lover Ludovico Vernagallo.
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 The
construction of this castle began in 1316, by
order of Count Francesco I of Ventimiglia, over
the ruins of the ancient Byzantine town of
Ypsigro, high on the San Pietro hill. Hence its
original name, "Castello del buon aere" ("Castle
of good air"), from which the name Castelbuono
is derived - literally meaning "good castle".
Numerous drastic alterations were made in the
17th cent. for reasons of accommodation.
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 As
one proceeds along the road from Ragusa to Santa Croce Camerina, one can admire
Donnafugata Castle, an imposing construction immersed in one of the most
evocative carob woods in the whole province, the scene of famous films including
an episode in "The Jar" in the film Kaos, directed by the Taviani brothers. The
castle's origins date back to the mid-17th cent.
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 Since
March 2003 Elio Vittorini (1908-1966) has been for Syracuse something more than
the great writer who was born here. With the creation of the Literary Park named
after this profound connoisseur of contemporary American literature, the writer
has become an "ambassador", in the broadest sense of the word, for the cultural
world of this province.
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 "...let
the funerary urn be taken to Sicily and be walled into some
rough stone in the country around Girgenti, where I was born."
These were the testamentary instructions of Luigi Pirandello
(1867-1936), who rests today close to the house he was born in
and to what he called the "African sea". The house, in a country
area known as Caos ("Chaos") in the territory of Agrigento and
now transformed into a museum.
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Literary Parks in Sicily |
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The Nine Provinces of Sicily |
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