Italy On This Day

Sicilian influenced by long-time collaborator Caravaggio Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit, thought to be a young Minniti The pai...

A painting depicting a ninth century Arab ship of the kind that would have invaded Sicily Fall of Taormina put island in Muslim contro...

Devastation that led to architectural rebirth An engraving dated at 1696 is thought to depict ruined buildings in Catania after the 16...

Much loved saint was immortalised in song Fireworks over the harbour at Syracuse during celebrations of the Festa di Santa Lucia ...