Monthly Archives: August, 2008

Monte San Savino Porchetta Festival

Monte San Savino, one of Tuscany's hill towns, is famous for its delicious porchetta - young pigs seasoned and roasted in a wood oven and sold at many open air...

Pictures of the Orcia Valley in Tuscany

Tuscany's beautiful Orcia Valley or Val d'Orcia is a UNESCO World Heritage site, chosen for its Renaissance planning and design. The valley, south of Siena, includes several charming hill towns...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sicily

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Sicily

DK Eyewitness Sicily Travel Guide

Eyewitness travel guides are packed with color photos and detailed maps and descriptions. Although heavy to carry around, they are great for planning your travels.

Sicily Eyewitness Travel guide is one of the best guidebooks I have come across.

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Sicily

GuidebookEyewitness travel guides are packed with color photos and detailed maps and descriptions. Although heavy to carry around, they are great for planning your travels.

Sicily Eyewitness Travel guide is one of the best guidebooks I have come across. More >>

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Solar Panels on Mafia Land

Solar Panels in SicilyMore than a thousand solar panels are to be set up on land seized from the Mafia in Sicily, officials said Wednesday. ”In place of abandoned villas and farmland we’re providing development,” said the mayor of the town of Campobello di Mazara, Ciro Carava’, stressing that the 1,320 panels would provide valuable cash for Mafia-hit firms after the power it produces is fed into the local system. ”The money will be put into a municipal fund to finance small businesses run by families who have lost relatives to the Mob or been the victims of extortion rackets,” he said. More>>

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