by Andreea Hincu | May 26, 2026 | #blog, #guideSicily, #holidays, #Puppets' Opera, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
There are art forms that survive because they are preserved in museums. Then there are art forms that survive because they are alive performed, contested and passed down through families who have dedicated generations to keeping them breathing. Opera dei Pupi is the...
by Andreea Hincu | May 21, 2026 | #flights, #sailingaeolian, #tailormadetravel, Mick Jagger
Some arrivals change the atmosphere of a place entirely. The arrival of Mick Jagger on Stromboli on 18 May 2026 was one of them. Mick Jagger, founder and frontman of the Rolling Stones, has arrived on Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands. His purpose: to film “Le...
by Andreea Hincu | May 5, 2026 | #blog, #guideSicily, #mediterranean, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Palermo is one of those cities that reveals itself slowly. The baroque churches, the Arab-Norman architecture, the street food and the noise are all immediately apparent. The street art, however, requires a different kind of attention. It lives in the side streets, on...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 24, 2026 | #blog, #holidays, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas, #ValdiNoto
There are foods that carry history inside them. Modica chocolate is one of them. Produced in the baroque hill town of Modica in southeastern Sicily, this is not chocolate as the rest of the world understands it. No cream, no butter, no lecithin. Just cacao, sugar and,...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 21, 2026 | #beach, #guideSicily, #holidays, #tailormadetravel
There are towns in Sicily that stop you in your tracks. Cefalù is one of them. Perched between a dramatic limestone rock and the Tyrrhenian Sea, with a Norman cathedral rising above terracotta rooftops and a sandy beach stretching along the waterfront, it is a place...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 13, 2026 | #guideSicily, #holidays, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Some places earn their reputation. The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento is one of them. Standing among the best-preserved ancient Greek temples in the world, on a ridge above the southern Sicilian coast with the Mediterranean Sea stretching to the horizon, it is...