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 18, 2026 | #blog, #guideSicily, #travel ideas, Caltagirone, Ceramic, Santo Stefano
Sicily produces some of the most distinctive ceramics in the world. The tradition is ancient, the craft is still very much alive, and the results are extraordinary from hand-painted majolica tiles to sculptural pieces that carry centuries of Arab, Norman and Spanish...
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 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...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 7, 2026 | #guideSicily, #holidays, #Palermo, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Every year, on the fourteenth of July, Palermo transforms. The streets fill with tens of thousands of people. The air smells of gunpowder and jasmine. A monumental float moves through the old town towards the sea. This is the Santa Rosalia Festival in...
