PALERMO, Italy — Here is a quick quiz for the opera aficionado. The biggest opera house in Italy is in Milan, Venice or Palermo? Yes, Milan’s La Scala may have more seats, and La Fenice in la Venezia ...
Palermo's Corso Vittorio Emmanuele was recently turned into a street made for bicycles and pedestrians. (Photos by Cain Burdeau/CNS) PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — The “City of the Mafia”? Yes and no. But in ...
A public art campaign in Palermo, Sicily, is reminding residents of the city’s grim Mafia years, and is encouraging them to resist creeping organized crime influence. By James Imam PALERMO, Sicily — ...
Leoluca Orlando, Ph.D., mayor of Palermo, Italy, spoke about “Identity and the Struggle between the Culture of Human Rights and the Mafia” at a The University of Scranton’s Schemel Forum luncheon in ...
May 23, 2023 marks 31 years since tensions between Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia and the Italian government reached an explosive turning point. The date will now also mark the opening of a new anti-mafia ...
A Pax Mafiosa has settled over Sicily. Sicilians are defying the Mafia in a movement fueled by the generation that came of age in the 1980s, when waves of bloody public assassinations of prosecutors, ...
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