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BURIED ITALY SERIES - THE LOST WORLDS OF SICILY

8 Days / 7 Nights

Between what is buried and still alive

A Sicily Specialty Small Group Program

Come and immerse yourself in Sicily — the great crossroads of the Mediterranean, where more civilizations have risen, ruled, and vanished than almost anywhere on earth. For three thousand years this island has been conquered and reconquered — by Greeks and Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs, Normans and Spaniards — each leaving a world that the next would build upon, bury, and half-forget. Over eight unforgettable days we travel across Sicily to uncover those lost worlds: Greek temples standing alone in the hills, a Phoenician island reached by boat, an Arab bath the Normans could not bring themselves to destroy, a Roman villa swallowed by the earth for seven centuries, and a cathedral built inside a Greek temple that is still in use today. Everywhere, the great theme of our journey: the tension between what is buried and what is still gloriously alive.

This is an island where every conqueror left his mark on a single building, where a Norman king commissioned Arab craftsmen and Byzantine mosaicists to work side by side, and where the dead of a 2,500-year-old battle were found lying exactly where they fell. We will stand beneath golden mosaics in Monreale, walk among the unfinished Doric columns of Segesta, cross a shallow lagoon to a Phoenician island to meet one of the most beautiful Greek statues ever found, and end beneath the smoking summit of Etna in a Greek theater carved into the rock. Sicily forgets nothing — it simply builds the next world on top of the last.

And we will taste all of it. Sicilian food is the most layered in Italy — every dish an accident of conquest. We will eat arancine and eggplant caponata born of Arab spice routes, fish couscous carried across from North Africa and still made on the island's western coast, cassata and granita that the Arabs invented from the snows of Etna. In Palermo we will taste freshly filled cannoli at a centuries-old convent bakery, where the nuns' secret recipes were nearly lost and then revived. We will raise glasses of Sicilian wine — the volcanic reds of Etna, the Greek-rooted whites of the west, and the fortified Marsala that Lord Nelson's British fleet once drank. There will be a welcome dinner, a farewell feast, a wine tasting, and long convivial lunches all along the way — and, as always, a few surprises.

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