
Easter in Sicily: Holy Week Processions and Sacred Drama
Sicily Holy Week processions -- from Trapani twenty-hour mysteries to Enna hooded confraternities -- are among Europe most elaborate expressions of sacred theatre.

Sicily Holy Week processions -- from Trapani twenty-hour mysteries to Enna hooded confraternities -- are among Europe most elaborate expressions of sacred theatre.

The infiorata transforms Italian hill town streets into flower petal mosaics for Corpus Christi -- hours of collective work built to last the length of…

The Palio di Siena is ninety seconds of horse racing built on a year of complex political manoeuvring between the city seventeen rival contrade --…

Venice Carnival is ten days of elaborate masks and costumes with a thousand-year social tradition -- the most photographed event in Italy and one of…