Constanze Reuscher’s travel diary

In Sicily, tradition is often lined to ancient walls and anecdotes, antiquities, old stuff. With its new La Foresteria Resort, the Planeta wine making family has established a refreshing contrast, possibly because the family itself is still a young producer. I greatly enjoyed my stay in […]

The memory of an indescribable suffering hardly mixes with the beautiful days of the end of the summer. Photographs show the result of a devastating earthquake that left hundreds of dead and completely destroyed houses and historical monuments. The Museum of Memory doesn’t contain only this […]

“For things to remain the same, everything must change.” I was a young woman when, for the first time, in a book that I found in my grandmother’s house, I read this phrase that is so important if one wants to be able to understand Italian […]

Appetite and perseverance, curiosity and enthusiasm are the necessary attributes without which one cannot present oneself to the ladies of the Brigade. When they teach you to make homemade pasta rolling out the dough with a rolling pin, or how to transform sardines, eggplant and lemons, […]

What is it that I, a German, have in common with my Brazilian colleague, Gina? A love of Sicilian wines! I wonder if you can imagine how happy I was to be offered the opportunity to take part in an evening-long wine tasting alongside the beautiful […]

It’s a noisy festival of the senses that takes place when the fishing boats dock in the port of Sciacca. Tons of fish and seafood are unload onto the dock that is part meeting place and part market. Let’s raise the curtain on this brightly colored […]

Turquoise is my favorite color and there are places where one can see it in many different shades: one of these is the sea at Menfi. I love beaches that stretch on for kilometers, I love walking in the shallow water, on the sand, on the […]

I participated in a Mass celebrated with the Byzantine rite in the church of Santissima Annunziata, in San Nicola, in Greek and according to the traditions of the ancient Albanian community. The ritual dates back from the ancient origins of the Christian churches in the East, […]

On the occasion of the wine harvest I passed a lovely day with the Rallo family. Giacomo and his wife Gabriella, and their son, Antonio, and daughter, Josè: four people who, with their elegance and joy, have been able to give their wine an inimitable character, […]

Sandstone reflects the bright sunlight. The city center is a Medina: Sambuca was founded by the Arabs and maintains its seven “Arab streets.” There is so much culture in a very small town. The palaces and churches are built in Sicilian Baroque style. This is true […]