Art&Style

Trends & insights about those magic art places in Sicily that combine a tantalizing blend of history and beauty.

Vendicari Natural Reserve: what to see

Between Noto and Marzamemi, the Vendicari Wildlife Oasis Natural Reserve is a paradise of beaches, lagoons and magnificent views, like the one you can enjoy from its ancient tuna fishery nestled on the sea.

Castelmola and the Antico Caffè San Giorgio (ME)

One of the most beautiful villages in Italy, Castelmola, a few km from Taormina, offers a wonderful view and a retro break at the Antico Caffè San Giorgio, where the ritual of Almond Wine was born.

Train Station Taormina-Giardini (ME)

Defined as “the most elegant station in the world”, Taormina-Giardini is an Art Nouveau jewel with refined decorations that will take you back to the emotion of travelling during the Belle Époque.

Le Colonne Taormina (ME)

In Taormina, an art atelier, laboratory and goldsmith's shop, since 1996 a treasure chest of the most refined jewellery and custodian of the skills in working gold and precious stones of the most fascinating ancient cultures, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, which have succeeded one another here.

San Berillo District (CT)

In the center of Catania, a neighborhood, once the "red light district" of the city, which is aiming for its urban and cultural rebirth thanks to an original street art project.

Cretto di Burri (TP)

The Grande Cretto di Gibellina is one of the largest contemporary works of art in the world as well as one of the most emotional ones, with its 80,000 square meters of concrete that covered the streets of the small Gibellina village which was completely destroyed during the 1968 earthquake.

Bar Vitelli (ME)

In Savoca, a small village near Taormina, Bar Vitelli is one of the most famous film locations in the world, which takes us straight to the heart of Sicily in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

Palazzo Butera (PA)

One of the most important buildings in Palermo is reborn with the remarkable art collection of Massimo Valsecchi and Francesca Frua de Angeli, at the center of one of the most extraordinary international social and cultural innovation projects of recent years.

Alessandro Florio’s Atelier (ME)

An artist who embodies all the beauty and energy of his city, Taormina, and of the many cultures that have influenced it, from the Greeks to the Arabs, each sedimenting legends, styles, works of art; those same suggestions that give life to his personal sacred symbolism that praises life and Nature.

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