While up on our rooftop terrace, we had noticed a building behind ours, which was decorated with carved busts of people.  This piqued our interest, and so we headed out to see just what the structure was, making it our first destination on another sunny Sicilian day. As it turned out, the building we had…

On Via dell’Università, on the facade of the building that houses the university’s Faculty of Law, there is a plaque in honor of Pietro Amodei, who was the first Sicilian martyr of the Revolution of 1848.  This is the spot where the clash with the Neapolitan Calvary took place, which cost Amodei his life. In…