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Aldo knows how to bring together a farmer’s experience with an artist’s poetic vision. Staying a few days in the house he built with his...

To reach Aldo’s farm is like entering a Hobbit’s house, the dwelling of a druid in the middle of the woods. Inside there are shelves full...

Who would have said that in the third millenium you could stir local economies thanks to a walking route? It’s four in the afternoon,...

What does a theatre have to do with geology? Little, on the surface, but underneath there’s a story binding them together. The salinity...

We spent a beautiful morning helping Carmelo to sow ancient Sicilian grains in the backyard of a robba in Milena. What is a robba? It's...

We start walking under the rain and knowing it’ll rain more. A passerby looks curiously at our backpacks and asks: “You pick this weather...

We reach the village of Acquaviva Platani in the early afternoon. There’s silence in the fields and softly falling rain. Three barking...

There’s an abandoned factory between the Platani river and the Agrigento-Palermo railroad tracks. It has a faded writing saying “saline...

One thing we noticed in our six-month walk across Sicily is that almost every family makes olive oil at home. It is the first time that...

Among the wheat fields of central Sicily you could stumble on places like this. Coming out of the wonderful woods of Mount Carcaci we...

He was a shepherd who loved his land and dreamt to become a sculptor. One day the sun was setting in the Strait of Sicily and lighting...

Prizzi, 70km away from Palermo, is the first town in which we stopped for more than three days. We took a break from walking and, at...

In the heart of Sicily, change is in the air. We met a woman proud to be from Corleone because it’s a land with many values, much more...

We walk through constant ups and downs, a landscape made of waves of claystone, like the rippled surface of a seaway. In the Sicani...

We walk towards Corleone through a semi-mythological landscape of barren rocky mountains hemmed by rolling clayey hills. This is the...

“Host strangers in my home? Never!” To the question “would you like to host travellers on foot?”, many would answer this way. Yet, those...

Monreale’s cathedral has mosaics so gorgeous that people stare at them in awe. It is said that William II of Sicily wanted it “beautiful...

In Santa Cristina di Gela we felt, for the first time, inside Sicily. Villages are perched on the hills and mountains remind of the rocky...

Palermo, the beginning of our trip. We stayed three nights in Kalsa, guests at Epifania and Fabrizio, two members of Magweb association....

“The hardest thing to see is what’s really there.” - J.A. Baker. This walk begins with the earth. The same earth that refugees carry in...