Sicily Tour

19/10/2020

Good morning everybody

23/09/2020

Even before Covid, and all the madness we are seeing all around the world today, Eric Whitacre was producing choral pieces for mass choir spread across the globe. He has a mailing list of tens of thousands, writes a piece for everyone to record themselves, singing their part alone in their room to their computer. They send the sound file to him and he and his engineers synchronize them into a single chorus and do the graphics. My sincere thanks to our good friend Douglas Kenning for sending me this and making me aware of this little bit of light in dark times.
Here is a piece for 17,000 voices in 100+ countries:

17,572 singers from 129 countries come together to perform Eric Whitacre's "Sing Gently". Produced by Music Productions Film by 59 Productions Audio by Float...

19/09/2020

Need a break? There are flights into Catania and Palermo every day. Treat yourself to a some TLC on one of the most beautiful islands in the Med

30/08/2020

Gate-crashing the Party: 500 years of immigration to America

Friends (and most of you are),

In these pandemic times, when Sicily must survive without us and my lectures must come from home, I've joined with a colleague to take our shows to ZOOM through Horizon Studies. And to launch it I've decided to offer one of my most popular lecture series, the one on the history of American immigration, updated. The story will be told largely through great historic pictures, maps, photos, and cartoons. In these times of misinformation and outright lies about what it means to be an American, it will be good to explore the American identity, one built almost entirely by immigration..


Open this link to find out more: www.horizonstudies.org/index.html

25/08/2020

A new lecture from Sicily Tour's own Dr. Douglas Kenning on September 3rd:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gate-crashing-the-party-500-years-of-immigration-to-america-tickets-116556486589

Gate-crashing the Party: 500 Years of Immigration to America
Immigration is American history itself, and a story that will dominate the 21st century.
Online lectures offered through Horizon Studies (horizonstudies.org). I have an immigration course that begins on Thursday, 3 September. Italian Immigration will be a major part, but I'll be discussing all nationalities.

18/07/2020

In memory of Dottore Rizzuto, the director of the wonderful Archeological park in Siracusa who together with his assistant Silvana Ruggeri, fell as very early victims of COVID 19 after receiving a party of visitors from overseas, the park is open at night for a limited period - floodlight and under the stars. here are the dates and times: 19.30 to 22.00 (last ticket sale) on 18, 22, 26 July; 2,10,11,12,13,14,19,23 August.

14/07/2020

Thinking about your Sicilian holiday in 2021? Sign up for one of our Highlights of Sicily Group tours available all year. Minimum 6 and maximum 16 people. Here's next year's calendar which is already beginning to fill with our rescheduled clients from this year. www.sicily-tour.com Go on.... spoil yourself

03/07/2020

Next year in Sicily. Travel with us your hosts and storytellers. www.sicily-tour.com for customised tours around the island of Sicily, genealogical research, archeology, history, food and wine... Join one of our Highlights of Sicily 11 day group tours running all year. if you are based in Siracusa or Palermo and prefer one day trips try www.ciaurudisicilytour.it. Book directly with us or come and join us for coffee in our offices in the heart of Ortigia in Siracusa. Via della Giudecca 35.

27/06/2020

Choose Sicily for a holiday you will never forget.www.sicily-tour.com

27/06/2020

Next Year in Sicily - www.sicilytour.com

14/06/2020

Looking forward to seeing you in Sicily.

10/06/2020

Sicily Tour's own Douglas Kenning gives his take on that son of Siracusa, one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever know, in this insightful and engaging video - who was he? Why of course.
https://youtu.be/ZQ6w3n5ZcUw

Perhaps hed greatest of engineers, of mathematicians, was Sicilian. Here is a story of Archimedes and the last glorious stand of Greek Sicily as told by Doug...