One season of
tourism is over. Not the most important, the most frequented. And, after having storming
on a peninsula, always most wet, dark clouds inflated of storms have arrived even to us.
It rained, angery showers, while the wind bends the foliage of the trees, and drops
without ending continue monotonousily, with the puddles always bigger, grey like the sky
without sun. For so many days I haven't been able to see Etna, and at times not even the
valleys under my window. But, in Sicily, the sky doesn't remain for long grey.
A color, so dead,
anonymous, can't last so long in a land, that from time, is made of contrast of livily and
strong colors. In a world, in which seems that the seasons have disappeared, we see the
colors of Autumn advancing on the foliage of the trees, in the woods, reddening of the
prickly pears, darkening of the blue, of the sea and accentuating in the sky the contrast
between light-blue and the white of the clouds, brought by the wind. For us, on the third
edition of life, continues the season of the growth and of the discovery. The pages and
the services have increased, this demonstrates how much is vital the texture of this, our
land, that also with the problems that afflict is a continuous explosion of events, of
manifestations. Even in a period, in which the mass tourism is absent, just to signify, a
tradition never abandoned, a need of continuity and to express, a heart disposed to the
joy and to the solemnity. Like this, this time, we have discovered the big treasures, of
an antique history of Centuripe and of Aidone, we have been able to space on the boundless
landscape, which is enjoyable from Assoro, we have been in the middle of the pistachio
trees, to follow the picking at Bronte, we have climbed the innumerable steps digged in
the rock, the Rock of Gagliano Castelferrato, we have seen the sea through the branches of
the olives of Pettineo.
Natural events, above
all. And human events, the arrival of the Ferrari at Pergusa, the highlight of the
celebration of the 50th year, the house of Maranello, at the show of unique and antique
pieces at Enna, in the inaugurating of a tract of a road of the two seas. We continue in
our journey made of discovery and of story-telling. An ideal and real crossing through the
inexhaustible wealth of this big and marvelous Island. |