After all, Sicily is always an exclusive destination where leisure and business activities can be combined for the best possible experience.

Sicily attracts millions of tourists every year.

Sicily boasts many amazing sceneries for outdoor and indoor team building activities for companies that aim to improve their team performances.

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3) Great ways to spend your leisure time
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L'articolo Why choose Sicily to plan your corporate events? proviene da Sicilytudine.

In Sicily, the word “vastedda” or “guastedda” refers to a particolar type of squashed bread. Instead, in the Belice Valley, it is a soft and a tasty sheep’s cheese which is the same shape of a “vastedda”. It is unseasoned white cheese with a slightly acidulous taste made with milk from Belice Valley sheep, an ovine breed of outstanding quality, with a pedigree,  that has remote origins and is known nationally for its productive characteristics.

It derives from the cross-breeding of three different species, the Comiso one for the size, the Sardinian one and the “pinzirita” one for the rusticity, its capacity to adapt to difficult environmental situations.

It is important to buy “vastedda” when visiting this part of Sicily to safegard a genuine product with a consolidated relationionship with territory and threatened with extinction.

L'articolo A cheese to save  proviene da Sicilytudine.

On the footsteps of the British writer S. Butler, who visited Sicily in 1894, we try to guess who she was, where and when she wrote.

There were many poetesses in the earliest ages of Greek literature and there is no ground for refusing the possibility that one of them lived in Sicily around 1000 B.C.
The fact that the recognized heads of literature in the Homeric age where the nine Muses-for and both Iliad and Odyssey begin with an invocation addressed to a woman suggests female authorship the Odyssey there is a preponderance of female interest, a fuller knowledge of things generally a woman deals with. People always write by preference of what they know best, and they know best what they most are, and have most to do with.
Women in the Iliad are few and rarely occupy the stage. The writer of the Odyssey is fierce like a tigress at times, but it is sweetness rather than strength that fascinates us throughout the poem. “It is the charm of a woman not of a man” as P.B. Shelley says (in Selected letters – 1882).

In the Odyssey women are directing, counselling and protecting men in domestic life. There is Minerva, omnipresent at the elbows of Ulysses and Telemachus to keep them straight and she alternately scold and flatter them. In the Iliad she is the warrior, in the Odyssey she is a great woman but not a warrior. Helen is master in the house of Menelaus, Calypsos is the mastermind, not Ulysses and look at Nausicaa, delightful as she is, it would not be wise to contradict her, she knows what is good for Ulysses and all will go well with him so long as she obeys her, but she must be master and he a man.
No woman in the Odyssey is ever laughed at, men are. Woman, religion and money are the three dominant ideas in the mind of the writer of the Odyssey. In the Iliad the belli causa is a woman, in the Odyssey the belli causa is mainly money and women are most in evidence.

Penelope was most probably made more virtuous than she was to preserve female honour as scandalous versions of Penelope’s conduct were current among the ancients. The authoress was most probably a young, unmarried lady. A man would not have made the suitors a band of lovers at all, bringing them at her feet, spoil them and in the end destroy them to exalt her sex. Shall we go further wrong if we conclude that Penelope picked out her web, not so much in order to delay a hateful marriage, as to prolong a very nice courtship instead? After all she has the right to please herself or not?
The authoress chooses to pretend that Ulysses was dying to get back to her, she knew perfectly well that he was in no great hurry to do so, she was not, however, going to admit anything so derogatory to the sanctity of married life, or at any rate to the power which a wife has over her husband.
The poem is such a tour de force as none but a high-spirited, headstrong girl, who had been accustomed to have things done her own way and she had the Iliad in front of her while writing.

Scheria and Ithaca are drawn from Trapani and its surroundings including the Egadi Islands. The voyages of Ulysses practically resolve themselves into a voyage from Troy to the neighbourhood of Sicily and so into a sail round Sicily, beginning with Trapani and ending with the same place at the foot of Mount Eryx that Ulysses reaches in a dark night full of mist, where a cave with a supposed hidden treasure is known till today by locals.

There is the description of the wing in the harbour of Phorcys to the cave in which he hides his presents, up to mt. Neritum along its long top to the spring and the Haven Rock and finally the path passing the hill of Mercury down to Ithaca, as accurately presented to us by the road from the saline of S. Cusumano to the Grotta del Toro on M. Eryx, the fountain, the Raven Rock, and the road to Trapani, as though the Odyssey had been written yesterday.
The Egadi Islands and particularly Asinelli and Formiche could be the Cyclops, as Sican descendants of the people who built the megalithic walls of Eryx.
Favignana is the island where Ulysses hunted the goats and the cave of Poliphemus is on M.Eryx then.
So, who was the writer?
She had for sure the Iliad in front of her and knowledge of the lost Greek epic poems while writing. We have then to find a woman of Trapani, young, fearless, self-willed and jealous for the honour of her sex. She seems to have moved in the best society of her age and country, for we can imagine none more polished on the west coast of Sicily in the Odyssean times than the one with which the writer shows herself familiar.

She must have had leisure, or she could not have carried through so great a work. She puts up with men when they are necessary and illustrious, but she is never enthusiastic about them, and likes them best when she is laughing at them; but she is cordially interested in fair and famous women. We should look for her in the house of king Alcinous where she must have been an intimate member to be able to laugh at his head as much as she chose.
She knows the house and the gardens as much as she likes to describe them as her own. No one else is described wit livingness and enthusiasm like Nausicaa, a product of an early Ionian colony from Corfù (Drepane – sickle).
The poem must be earlier, set the fall of Troy at 1184 B.C by Thucydides, than 734 B.C., so before the foundation of Syracuse by Korinthos.

L'articolo Was Ulysses’ trip actually a sail around Sicily? proviene da Sicilytudine.

Inserted for some time in a protected area called “Etna Park”, the volcano and the surrounding area that hosts it are the destination of numerous excursions, which give tourists unforgettable emotions.

There are several activities that can be practiced on the paths of the volcano: walking enthusiasts can choose trekking with an excursion assisted by mountain and volcanological guides; these paths give the opportunity to admire the summit craters of the volcano, after a splendid climb.

For those who love to drive on rough paths and experience the thrill of a fast climb, among breathtaking views, an exciting Quad tour is ideal, always assisted by authorized guides.

Those with a passion for two wheels might think of a mountain bike excursion with pedal assistance.

The most famous destination – regardless of the means used – is the Valle del Bove: a very wide valley, about 18 km in perimeter with mountainous edges, which in some sections exceed 1,000 meters in height. Here you can admire the lava from the 2017 eruption up close.

For those looking for an unforgettable moment, at sunset the excursions are even more romantic and engaging, especially when the volcano is in full eruption: the spectacle of the lapilli silhouetted against the sky illuminated by the colors of the sunset is a unique emotion.

Etna is also the place where mushroom hunters find paradise: the typical destination for those in search of mushrooms is an area called Giarrita, located in area B of the Park. Area B identifies the part of the reserve defined as “General”, where historically man diligently follows the laws of nature, respecting all types of biodiversity. It is the beating heart of the Etna Park.

Etna mushrooms are tasty and full-bodied, they are found at an altitude between 500 and 600 meters, generally they are born and grow after a heavy rain followed by a splendid sunny day. The “muntagna”, as Etna is friendlyly called, is filled with mushrooms of all kinds, starting from the end of August. During the excursions it will therefore be possible to meet not only the tasty porcini but also the chiodini, the ovolo, the drumstick, the pineroli, the black puddings and the cockerels.

Obviously it is also frequent to come across poisonous or inedible mushrooms, which is why knowing how to recognize them is of vital importance: looking for mushrooms requires the possession of the “mushroom picking” card, which is obtained after a course, with relative examination.

L'articolo Etna, mushrooms and excursions. proviene da Sicilytudine.

Known as the harvest period, autumn in Sicily will allow us surprising tours and food and wine discoveries, thanks also to the wine routes that offer visitors the opportunity to visit ancient cellars, typical regional dishes and experience the atmosphere of the past.

Starting from the center of the island, an extremely interesting route is that of the Wine and Flavors route of the Nisseni Castles. We are in the heart of Sicily, where time seems to have stopped, far from the mass tourist spots.

The “Nisseno” – this is the name of the area – offers a fascinating panorama, full of castles such as those of Butera, Falconara, Caltanissetta and Mazzarino; for the monuments of the past we mention the archaeological areas of Gibil-Gabib or the abandoned sulfur mines of Caltanissetta.

In this splendid area the Riesi DOC wine is born, a Nero d’Avola that is deliciously accompanied with other local products, such as almonds and honey, or traditional dishes, such as the “muffolette” of golden bread or the “mbruliata” of stuffed bread. All strictly seasoned with Dop oil produced on site.

An ideal destination for lovers of unusual places is the “Fortress of Wine”, also known as the Solicchiata Castle. The Castle is located in Adrano, a small town located in the heart of the Etna Park and, due to its particular activity, is an example of a unique company of its kind: it is the only castle in Italy used as an oenological establishment.

The fortress, in the past, was the only Italian winery to receive the authorization from the Royal House of Italy to raise the flag with the Royal emblem on the plant, thanks to the excellent quality of a particular supply of wines donated to the rulers of the weather. In this enchanted place the first “Etna Rosso” was born, to be tasted with delicious local products. A jewel of Sicily that is the most awarded Italian winery in the world.

Going down towards Catania, don’t miss the Sagra della Mostarda e del Ficodindia. This event, organized for several years, leaves visitors with the delicious scent and unparalleled taste of hot mustard, served in the typical terracotta bowls.

In the cool autumn, Sicily is a riot of festivals, parties and occasions for tasting the food and wine of the region. It is possible to take a ride on board the Etna wine train or on the carriages of the train of taste, which from Messina reaches Caltagirone; also known are the train of cheese – which leads from Syracuse to Ragusa – and that of ancient grains, which from Palermo reaches San Cataldo. The latter is a real vintage train, with carriages called “centoporte” and original electric locomotive.

An important Sicilian event – which every year receives particular success and great participation – is the Ottobrata Zafferanese, which takes place in Zafferana Etnea. Here the flavors of the Sicilian food and wine tradition blend harmoniously with music, art and crafts. Every weekend in October between Piazza Umberto, the Villa Comunale and in other corners of the town, producers and stalls of grapes, wine, honey, mustard, prickly pears, pomegranates, walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pistachios, nougats and fine oil give life to an incomparable show dedicated to the exaltation of taste.

L'articolo Traveling to Sicily in winter proviene da Sicilytudine.