| Sicily: A Cultural History Contributor(s): Farrell, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1623719577 ISBN-13: 9781623719579 Publisher: Interlink Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Italy - History | Europe - Italy - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 945.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.6" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |