Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

Rick Steves makes no secret of his love for Sicily. He believes the island has some of Italy's best food and adores the colorful towns bursting with life. It feels like Sicily has everything it takes ...

Italians may flock to Sicily’s soft sands in summer, but this far-flung Mediterranean island is far more than just a beach destination. Families can scale Mount Etna in giant off-road jeep buses, ...

It felt like entering a Bond villain's lair. We followed Viviana Pitino of the Buonivini estate through a door deep in the hillside into a cavernous hi-tech space. Inside was a sleek, modern winery ...

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This story is part of Traveller’s Best of Europe holiday guide. See all stories. Tour manager Davide Iosia is blunt on the first day of my Collette tour in Palermo. Sicily, he says, is a place where ...

The open-top jeep is hurtling down country roads, plowing through mud and navigating hairpin turns. It is sunset on a summer evening in central Sicily, and of course there is not a cloud to be found.

Travelling around Sicily, you get used to seeing images of "Don" Vito Corleone – OK, Marlon Brando – in a tux. Sometimes – such as in the gritty, market-laced Vucciria district of capital Palermo – he ...

As per the Oxford English Dictionary, quality can be defined by “the degree of excellence of something,” or a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. Visiting the ...

My boyfriend, Chris, is sitting in the exact spot where Al Pacino informed Appollonia's father that his name was Michael Corleone, and that "some people would pay a of lot money for that information, ...