Winter sea. Like the desire, dream, and memory. Not the sea of the days on the beach, of the colored umbrellas, of the infinite sun. A sea that doesn't talk about the vacation and the resting, a sea of tones most dark and faraway, from the variable lights, that reflects the greyness of the clouds, at times with the outlines of every most little clean and definite rock in a day of wind, forgetful sea of Summer of which has cleaned every trace on the beach, where now we can walk for a long time, breathing sauce air, with a vague sensation of unreality for this empty and live vastness. The snow that has whitened the slopes of Etna and the peaks of the Nebrodi, low rain and clouds have immersed in the grey valleys and hills. This is the moment to go down on the most close beach, to search for a rock, on which, to sit and look, to look only, because in these months the desire of sun and of heat become a need, and only the sea can help us to remember the other days. But it's nice, however and always, this sea of Sicily, even if we don't turn to him to beg for the memory of Summer. These are the days, in which, you can really discover the complex and composite beauty of a beach, of a reef. There isn't elements of disturbance, there's no people, there's no noise, except the song or the sigh or the cry of the backwash. Now the shore is virgin, and our footprints are the first, and only, like, as if, the world is hardly born. Like this, for this edition we have chosen, like a piece de resistance, the sea. Of that changeable and rich and endless of the Siracusani coastals, to the well-known faraglioni in front Acireale, in the setting of it's fabulous carnival, one of the main human events of this period in all the island, to the different beauty and poetics of Cefalu', that overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea. Then there is an event of wideworld importance, the Roman exhibition of Antonello da Messina, one of the supreme among the great painters, that of this land, it's been the most illustrious writer - with his images of absolute beauty - and that constitutes today a message of art, all Sicilian. Like this, we talk about the meeting, with the many presidents of the associations of the Sicilian emigrants of the world, that came from every continent. But we haven't forgotton that Sicily less noticed - but certainly authentic and to discover - of the inland, and we went to San Michele di Granzaria, and among the woods of the Nebrodi.

The Sicilian events, Sicily like an event, the first edition in the newsstand, our poster said. A year ago. Today, in the moment, in which, SICILIAevents is presented in the newsstand all around Italy, I think I can say that the meaning of our slogan has been respected, and remains, for us, the definition and the sense of our work. We have said, that in no other place of the world exist a piece of land, that is so rich of events and that is a wonderful natural event: even this is absolutely true, and if I repeat it, it's only to give an explanation to our readers, to whom, I ask to accompany us, in our journey of discovery, with a free mind from eventual preconceptions and from common places that unfortunately continue to weigh on the image of our island. At them, to all, I say: welcome, in the Sicily, most beautiful and most real.