Sicily: A Cultural History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623719579)

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AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A CULTURAL GIANT

Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. Sicily today is familiar and unfamiliar, modernized and unchanging. Visitors will find in an out-of-the-way town an Aragonese castle, will stumble across a Norman church by the side of a lesser travelled road, will see red Muslim-styles domes over a Christian shrine, will find a Baroque church of breathtaking beauty in a village, will catch a glimpse from the motorway of a solitary Greek temple on the horizon and will happen on a the celebrations of the patron saint of a run-down district of a city, and will stop and wonder. There is more to Sicily than the Godfather and the mafia.

Author: Joseph Farrell
ISBN-10: 1623719577
ISBN-13: 9781623719579
Publisher: Interlink Books
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.70d