Escape Routes: Western Sicily

‘The island offers a peerless perspective on spans of time, flavours of life and the complex relationships between peoples and place,’ says Clare on this sultry Sicilian trip. ‘Though I have lived in Palermo, the west leads to new territories, to secrets, fugitives, miracles and eccentricities.’ He starts in Mazara del Vallo, ‘the most languid edge of Europe’, closer to Africa than Italy, and continues through ruins of Ancient Greek cities and plates of spaghetti con ricci (sea urchins) overlooking water ‘the colour of peacocks’. All the while time bends slowly from the great civilisations that once stood here and spectres of Lampedusa’s The Leopard to Sicily’s complex modern soul.

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Western Sicily: from sea to sand

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