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It takes little to notice the fragility of landscapes in which we live; with that little effort so much can be done. For the first time...

Sunset is always a magic moment of our walk. It creates an atmosphere that goes beyond sight and embraces the other senses. On the beach...

Continuing our trip we keep on finding examples of how geology has influenced society and human beings. In Licata, near Agrigento, we...

To get to know the true face of the land we must read books. Literature can help a great deal to understand a complex landscape and...

We’re entering the age of environmental consciousness. We’ve seen it from this story, too, in which take part a showgirl of 10 million...

White beaches and celestial mechanics. What do they have in common? This picture-postcard scenery of Sicily exists thanks to the peculiar...

The thing that fascinated us the most about our trip was getting to know the true face of the land. It’s no coincidence that we crossed...

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...