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☆ So Close to Sicily, So Far From the Crowds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Amy Tara Koch | Paolo Pellegrin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For years I had been hearing about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-get-to Eden with middle-of-nowhere tranquillity that sits 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia. Luca Guadagnino’s 2015 film “A Bigger Splash” painted a seductive idyll of mud baths, romantic ruins and secluded swimming coves. Celebrities like Madonna, Sting and Julia Roberts visited, drawn to the striking, Africa-meets-Italy ambience, along with Giorgio Armani, a part-time resident since 1980. The fact that nobody was impressed by them added to the allure. The beauty is in the slow pace and the wild landscape.”

Persons: Luca Guadagnino’s, Sting, Julia Roberts, Giorgio Armani, ”, Sciascia Gambaccini Locations: Pantelleria, Eden, Sicily, Tunisia, Africa, Italy

☆ US returns $80 million-worth of stolen artifacts to Italy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Bogdanos said the $80 million of items does not include a further 100 items his team has just seized in the US. That means that, in addition to the items themselves, their historical context was stolen, robbing archaeologists of valuable information. Most of the recent items returned to Italy were dug out of clandestine excavations or stolen from churches, museums and private individuals, Gargaro said. Italy’s Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection unit uses artificial intelligence to search for stolen cultural assets. Italy’s Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection unit uses artificial intelligence to search for stolen cultural assets under a new program called “Stolen Works Of Art Detection System” (SWOADS), which searches for taken items by scanning the web and social media for images.

Persons: Rome, Matthew Bogdanos ’, Emanuele Antonio Minerva, Bogdanos, Francesco Gargaro, ”, Gargaro, Gianmarco Mazzi Organizations: Rome CNN, Central Institute, New, The, CNN, Cultural Heritage Locations: Rome, Manhattan, Italy, Lazio, Campania, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, New York, United States, York, “

☆ This Island Wants to Round Up Its Wild Goats. Catching Them Won’t Be Easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Come June, a crack team of wildlife experts plans to swarm the volcanic cliffs and natural caves of a small island in the Mediterranean to ensnare what has become an out-of-control species: goats gone wild. It is the first step in a mission to rid the Aeolian island of Alicudi, just north of Sicily, of the hundreds of feral goats that are crowding out the island’s 100 or so year-round human inhabitants, so that the animals can be adopted elsewhere. “We are all for goats running free, but let’s be clear: These aren’t Heidi’s kid goats,” said Carolina Barnao, a council member in neighboring Lipari, which administers its fellow Aeolian islands. “Some of them could even become dangerous.”After being seized on Alicudi, the goats will be rustled down to an enclosure near the island’s port, tested for diseases and then hoisted onto a ship heading to Sicily, where they will spend two months in quarantine. Then, they can be adopted and taken to greener pastures.

Persons: ”, Carolina Barnao Locations: Alicudi, Sicily, Lipari

☆ How Should the Stories of Migrants Be Told?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Dinaw Mengestu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE SILENCE OF THE CHOIR, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s second novel, “The Silence of the Choir,” opens with the arrival of 72 migrants in a fictional Sicilian village called Altino, an ideal narrative framework to test a novel’s empathetic capacity. The migrants may be the newcomers, but Sarr is too interesting and thoughtful a writer to simply answer the inevitable question: Will the good people of Altino learn to care about these men? His interest, rather, is in finding what kind of narrative form, if any, is best suited to such a task. Traoré’s story is so hard to tell that Sarr interrupts the narration halfway through and turns it into a play.

Persons: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Alison Anderson, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s, ”, Mount, Sarr, Jogoy, Fousseyni Organizations: Choir Locations: Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Mount Etna, Sicily, Malian

☆ From $35,000 to $446,000: What it cost to renovate a $1 home in Italy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

She placed a winning bid for 5,555 euros, and with taxes and fees, spent 5,900 euros (roughly $6,200) to secure the property. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItMeredith Tabbone knocked down several walls to open up her kitchen, dining and living areas. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItDespite "4 million moments of frustration" over the years, Tabbone says the expense has been well worth it. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItThe houses were sold for 1 euro each but also incurred a 500-euro realtors fee and 2,800-euro deed. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make It

Persons: Meredith Tabbone, Rubia Daniels, Tabbone, she's, Mickey Todiwala, She's, Daniels, It's, Rubia Daniels Rubia Daniels Organizations: CNBC, realtors Locations: Sicily, Chicago, Sambuca di Sicilia, Sambuca, Italy, Berkeley , California, Berkeley, Calif, Mussomeli

For a food that begins with just flour, water or sometimes eggs, there are infinite variations of pasta. So what happens when you convene a panel of five Italian cuisine experts and ask them to determine the 25 most essential pasta dishes throughout Italy? The final picks appear below in unranked alphabetical order, along with the ideal wine to drink with each pasta dish, as recommended by the chosen restaurants and reviewed by Davies’s husband, the sommelier Marco Lami. This list is the latest in our T 25 series, which highlights significant achievements in the worlds of design, literature, fashion, architecture and food. We chose pasta because it’s the food most associated with Italy, and because it’s the subject of T’s new Travel issue.

Persons: ”, Davide Palluda, Stefano Secchi, Emiko Davies, Karima Moyer, Roberta Corradin, I’d, Davies’s, Marco Lami, It’s, you’ll, della Neve, dei Fiori, Massimo Bottura’s, Maria Luigia, ” Secchi, Secchi Organizations: della Locations: Italy, Piedmont, York, Tuscany, Umbria, Florence, Sicily, Boston, Paris, Mexico City, Marche, Modena, Emilia, Romagna

☆ 5 Dead After Inhaling Hazardous Gas at a Water Plant in Sicily
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | More About Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Five workers died on Monday afternoon while working in a sewer connected to a water treatment plant in the town of Casteldaccia near Palermo, Sicily, according to firefighters who recovered the bodies. A sixth worker was seriously injured and in intensive care, local officials said. Girolamo Bentivoglio, chief of firefighters in Palermo, said the workers had breathed in hydrogen sulfide, a gas often present at waste treatment plants that is toxic in high concentrations. The accident raised a new round of outrage over the incidence of workplace deaths in Italy. In April, seven workers were killed in an explosion in a hydroelectric plant near Bologna, while five died in Florence during the construction of a supermarket in February.

Persons: Girolamo Bentivoglio, Mr, Bentivoglio Organizations: Eurostat, European Union Locations: Casteldaccia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Bologna, Florence

☆ This American bought a $1 home in Italy and spent $35,000 renovating it: 'It's much easier to be happier here'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

When Rubia Daniels heard a town in Italy was selling off abandoned homes for 1 euro each (or roughly $1.05), she had to take a look herself. Rubia Daniels is from Berkeley, Calif., and bought several 1-euro houses in Mussomeli, Sicily. "It's much easier to make friends in Sicily than it is to make friends back in California," Daniels says. "It's a much more stressful way of living," Daniels says. Rubia Daniels 1-euro homeowner in Mussomeli, Sicily

Persons: Rubia Daniels, Daniels, she's, Mickey Todiwala, Nathalie Milazzo, Katerina Montagnino, Montagnino, Leo Organizations: CNBC Locations: Italy, Berkeley, Calif, Mussomeli, Sicily, California, Europe, U.S, Bay

☆ Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

It was previously only known that he was buried in the academy, but not specifically where, Ranocchia told CNN Tuesday. A statue of ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Athens, Greece. Brigida Soriano/AlamyThe text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played. The project, called the Greek Schools project, is a five-year study using various technologies and methods to help decipher the fragile papyri. “The new readings often draw on new and concrete facts about Plato’s Academy, Hellenistic literature, Philodemus of Gadara and ancient history in general.”

Persons: Plato, Graziano Ranocchia, Ranocchia, Roman general Sulla, Brigida Soriano, ”, ” Ranocchia, Socrates, Julius Caesar, Lorenzo Di Cola, ” Kilian Fleischer Organizations: CNN, Platonic Academy of Athens, of Philology, University of Pisa, Platonic, Spartans, University of Naples, European Union, ERC – European Research Council, Greek Schools, Plato’s Academy Locations: Vesuvius, Athens, Greece, Thrace, Naples, Mesopotamia, Aegina, Sicily, Herculaneum, Italy

☆ This American bought a $1 home in Italy and spent $446,000 renovating it—it improved her work-life balance
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Meredith Tabbone first decided to buy and renovate a cheap home in Italy to reconnect with her family history. More than four years and nearly half a million dollars later, her 1-euro home journey has given her a new perspective on work, life, friendships and happiness. Meredith Tabbone spent roughly $475,000 on her dream home in Sambuca di Sicilia. She also bought the building next door and spent the next four years managing a local crew on the massive renovation. In all, Tabbone spent roughly $475,000 on her Italian dream home.

Persons: Meredith Tabbone, Tabbone, Sambuca di Sicilia, Mickey Todiwala, I've, She's, she's Organizations: Sambuca, CNBC Locations: Italy, Chicago, Sicilia, Sambuca, America, Sambuca di, U.S, Sicily

☆ Mt. Etna Puffs Perfect Smoke Rings Into Sicilian Sky
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Etna, one of Europe’s most active volcanoes, has been spewing circular, mostly white smoke rings into the skies over Sicily. The rings, known as volcanic vortex rings, appeared earlier this month after a small vent opened on the northwest border of the Southeast crater. In this case, the vent is perfectly circular, making for particularly perfect rings. “It is bellissimo,” said Simona Scollo, another volcanologist at the INGV Etna Observatory in Catania, using the Italian word for beautiful. Ms. Scollo copublished a study on the dynamics of volcanic vortex rings last year in the journal Scientific Reports.

Persons: It’s, it’s, Etna, Boris Behncke, ”, Simona Scollo, Scollo Organizations: National Institute of Geophysics, Volcanology Locations: Mt, Etna, Sicily, Catania

☆ Italian island overrun by goats is offering them free to anyone who can catch them
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Amarachi Orie | Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and, ideally, about 100 wild goats. According to the Sicilian regional government, the goats were introduced to the island around 20 years ago by a farmer who then set them free. For years, the animals—which are not owned by anyone—grazed autonomously on the sides of Alicudi’s cliffs and are featured in almost any postcard from the volcanic island. “We have heard from dozens of people since we first announced this,” Gullo said, including a farmer from the nearby island of Vulcano, who produces goat cheese. Once the goats have been apportioned, the goat-taker has 15 days to catch and remove them from the island.

Persons: Riccardo Gullo, Gullo, you’ve, they’re, —, ” Gullo, ” Organizations: CNN Locations: Alicudi, Vulcano, Sicily, McKinney , Texas, Llandudno, Wales

☆ An Italian town wants to sell its abandoned homes for $1 but the owners won't let it
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

However, Patrica's mayor said people in the town aren't prepared to sell their abandoned homes. AdvertisementThe mayor of a quaint medieval Italian town wants to replicate the one-euro home initiative, inspired by the success stories of places like Mussomeli in Sicily. But according to CNN Travel, homeowners in Patrica, a town of about 3,000 people in central Italy, aren't prepared to sell their abandoned properties. The news outlet said that Lucio Fiordaliso, the mayor of Patrica, has struggled to transform the town using the offer of $1 homes, which Business Insider has covered extensively. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: CNN he's, Mussomeli, Patrica's, aren't, —, Lucio Fiordaliso Organizations: CNN, Service, CNN Travel, Business Locations: Patrica, Italy, Mussomeli, Sicily

☆ This Italian town is struggling to sell off its empty homes for one euro. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Abandoned homesItalian village Patrica, located south of Rome, is struggling to offload its abandoned homes. Public callMany of the town's local families left in search of a brighter future elsewhere, leaving their homes empty for decades. Some of the houses are simply too neglected to sell, even if the owners were willing to agree to it. But the town’s ready-to-occupy homes, with two-bedroom properties starting at 20,000 euros ($21,832,) proved to be more appealing. “There is interest, but then when many (foreigners) actually see the bad shape of the old homes they’d prefer to opt for turn-key apartments that are already restyled or in need of just minor fixes,” says Grossi.

Persons: CNN —, Lucio Fiordaliso, who’ve, “, Fiordaliso, ”, Patrica Fiordaliso, it’s, Patrica, Gianni Valleco, ’, Valleco, Alessandra Pagliarosi, Patricia, Pagliarosi, Ilario Grossi, Fiordaliso hasn’t Organizations: CNN, ”, Local Locations: Mussomeli, Sicily, Zungoli, Campania, Rome, Italy, Patrica, Canada, Argentina, Europe, Ceccano

☆ An Arms Smugger, a Daring Heist, and the Birth of Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. "It went against the grain to buck the same government we had fought to preserve only a few years before," Hank Greenspun recalled. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

Persons: Danny Schwimmer, They'd, Rina, Al —, David Ben, Gurion, Al Schwimmer, Schwimmer, Bugsy Siegel's, Meyer Lansky, Frank Sinatra, Sinatra, —, Boaz Dvir, Israel —, Danny, Al, I've, Hank Greenspun, Greenspun, Brian, Adolph, Dick Tracy, " Schwimmer, Wing Walker, America, Yehuda Arazi, Arazi, they'd, Schwimmer's, Sam Lewis, Leo Gardner, Milton, Milt, Rubenfeld, Paul Reubens, Herman, Reubens, Bugsy Siegel, Siegel, — Schwimmer, Nathan Liff, Liff, PhotoQuest, Bernarr McFadden, Pat, Ptacek, Rafael Trujillo, Teddy Kollek, Erwin Johnson, Bill Gerson, Gerson, Bud King, Gerson's, Ben, Joel Kimmel, Lewis, Lansky, hadn't, Tommy, Messerschmitts, David, Milt Rubenfeld, Israel, Charlie Winters, Winters, weren't, aren't, America's, Joseph McCarthy, John F, Kennedy, Brian Greenspun, Golda Meir, Bill Clinton Organizations: Israeli Air Force, TWA, Haganah, United Nations, Lockheed Air, Los Angeles Examiner, USC, Getty, US Naval, Schwimmer Aviation, FBI, UN, Customs Service, Palestine . Volunteers, Embassy, Israel, Service Airways, State Department, BI, Pepsi, Zionist, Nazi, Star, American, Avia, Messerschmitt, Pennsylvania State University who's, Las, Sun, Israel Aerospace Industries, IAI, they're, Israeli Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, Connecticut, Palestine, New York, Copacabana, United States, Hungary, Auschwitz, storages, Arizona, Bridgeport, Rome, Burbank , California, Burbank, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Oahu, Santa Claus, California, Washington, Burbank ., Acapulco, Mexico, it's, Mexico City, Central, South America, Dominican Republic, China, America, Mexican, Panama, Panamanian, Corsica, Oklahoma, Detroit, Suriname, Brazil, Senegal, Casablanca, Sicily, Catania, Europe, Czechoslovakia, Czech, Egypt, Cairo, Los Angeles, American, Gaza, Iran

☆ 'America's greatest gift to Israel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

As the country's founder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, once declared, "America's greatest gift to Israel was Al Schwimmer." Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

☆ An Italian town that offered $1 homes was transformed by an influx of remote workers and tourism
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The sales led to an influx of tourists, remote workers, and investment, Toti Nigrelli added. AdvertisementIt all began with an enticing offer: homes in a picturesque Sicilian town for just one euro, barely more than a dollar. According to Mussomeli's deputy mayor, who helped launch the initiative in 2017, it sparked a total revitalization of the once-underpopulated town, attracting tourists, remote workers, and investment to the area. Toti Nigrelli told Business Insider in a documentary that before the program's implementation, Mussomeli faced major depopulation issues. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Mussomeli, Toti Nigrelli, — Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Sicily, underpopulated

☆ We were drawn to Sicily's viral $1 homes. We ended up spending $30K for 2, but it was worth every penny.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Tam and Gary Holm, a Californian couple who bought homes in Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy. I wrote to the email address provided in the article and got a response from the actual mayor of Sambuca di Sicilia. Gary and Tam Holm walk with their child in Sambuca di Sicilia. Gary and Tam Holm enter their home in Sambuca di Sicilia. Falling in love with SicilyDrone footage of Sambuca di Sicilia.

Persons: Tam, Gary Holm, —, It's, Gary, Tam Holm, Sambuca di Sicilia, Luke Renard, We'd, hadn't, it's, Sambuca, Sicilia, I'd Organizations: BI, Service, Business Locations: Sicily, Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy, England, Los Angeles, Sambuca, Sicilia, Sambuca di, America, Gary, Washington ,, Tam, Palermo

☆ What Was the True Cost of Italy's $1 Home Scheme?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Imagine paying as little as 1 euro for a home. That's what happened in Italy a few years ago. The plan was to inject life and money back into dying towns. But for many foreign buyers, it wasn't smooth sailing. We traveled to Sicily to find out how much buyers actually ended up spending.

Locations: Italy, Sicily

☆ We retired in Italy after visiting once over a decade ago. After selling our US home, we live a cheaper, slower life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Glenda and Randy Tuminello moved to Italy in December 2022, after selling their home in Texas. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Glenda and Randy Tuminello, both 70, who left the US in 2022 to retire to southern Italy. During Covid, we began thinking about living in Italy and started to plan for our retirement there. We sold our home in Texas in 2020 and moved to Washington again to be with family while we were preparing to move. AdvertisementRetired life in Italy is cheaperGlenda: When we lived in Spokane, Washington, we didn't get to know people that well.

Persons: Glenda, Randy Tuminello, —, Randy, We've, we'd, Covid, It's, we've, I've Organizations: Service, Mare Locations: Italy, Texas, Arkansas , Michigan, Arizona, Oregon , Washington, Arkansas, Sicily, Washington, San Francisco, Polignano, Adriatic, America, Spokane , Washington, Rome

☆ A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's when he found the so-called death ray. AdvertisementSener surmised the Archimedes death ray wasn't impossible if it had used many more mirrors and a hotter heat source. A long history of death ray attemptsMany others have tried to recreate the death ray, with varying levels of success. Most recently, the TV show "Mythbusters" took on Archimedes' death ray three times and never managed to make it work. The reflective surfaces and fiery boats could have become conflated in the ensuing centuries, possibly creating the myth of a death ray.

Persons: Archimedes, —, Sener, wasn't, Syracuse Sener, Roman, Marcellus, Descartes, Athanasius Kircher, Georges, Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Ioannis Sakkas Organizations: Service, Getty Images Scientists, London Public Library Locations: Syracuse, Sicily, French

☆ Billionaires and A-listers pay me to plan their luxury vacations. For $150,000 a year, I get them into the best restaurants and hotels in the world.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jaclyn Sienna India, the founder of the luxury travel concierge Sienna Charles. I wanted to take that elegance, knowledge, and personal service I learned in the restaurant and bring it to travel. Faking it until I made itI started my own travel concierge, Sienna Charles, 16 years ago. Before it had a name, we definitely had been practicing quiet luxury travel and hospitality. Sienna Charles specializes in "quiet luxury" travel.

Persons: —, Jaclyn Sienna India, Sienna Charles, Bec, Abercrombie, there's, it's, We're, we're, George W, Bush, Sienna Charles Many, I've, We've, Mariah Carey, we've, They've, Carbone, I'd, I'm, Jacqueline Sienna India, Sienna Charles ., Sienna Charles I Organizations: Service, Business, Gotham Magazine, Manhattan Magazine, Disney Locations: New Jersey, Kent, Paris, Ethiopia, Turkey, Los Angeles, New York City, Africa, Capri, Sicily, I'm, Europe

☆ How Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Davis Jr. became America’s first Black generals
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Nicole Chavez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. Twenty years after his father made history, Davis Jr. became the first Black brigadier general in the Air Force in 1960. Davis Sr. was born in Washington, DC, less than 20 years after the ratification of the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery. So, Davis Jr. moved alone to Chicago for nearly two years to secure the nomination and his spot at West Point. “So, (the Army) provided no opportunities for African Americans to lead troops, it provided no opportunities before 1940 for African Americans to fly airplanes, there were no African Americans in the Marine Corps,” Moye added.

Persons: Benjamin O, Davis, Davis Jr, “ Davis, ”, J, Todd Moye, “, White, ” Moye, Sr, West Point Davis, Oscar S, De Priest, Illinois, ” “, Doug Melville, ’, America’s, Ben Jr, ” Benjamin O, Simon, Simon & Schuster, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Moye, Army shouldn’t, Harry S, Truman, Melville, Le’Trice Donaldson, ” Donaldson, Bill Clinton, Davis , Jr, ” Clinton, ” Melville Organizations: CNN, US Army, Tuskegee Airmen, Air Force, University of North, Service’s Tuskegee, Guard, 8th US Volunteer Infantry, Army, Army’s, of, 9th Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers, Army War, Corps, West Point, African, Blacks, Tuskegee Institute, 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, Chanute Air Museum, Simon &, Marine Corps, Alabama’s Tuskegee Army, US Air Force, Armed Services, United States Army, United States Air Force, Black, Texas, Corpus Christi, Department of Transportation, Federal Air Marshal Service, America Locations: University of North Texas, Washington ,, Spanish, Philippines, Mexico, American, France, Chicago, West, West Point, Italy, Washington, America, North Africa, Sicily, Vietnam, “

☆ In This Heroes’ Tale, Real People Risk Their Lives to Get to Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the end of “Io Capitano” (“I Captain”), Matteo Garrone’s harrowing contender for best international film at next month’s Academy Awards, a map tracks the journey taken by the film’s two teenage protagonists: over 3,500 miles from Dakar, Senegal, to Sicily, via the scorching Nigerien desert, horrific Libyan prisons and a nerve-racking Mediterranean crossing aboard a rickety vessel. Such perilous voyages, taken each year by countless Africans seeking a new life in Europe, is “one of the great dramas of our times,” Garrone said in a recent interview, and “Io Capitano” is framed as an epic, modern-day Odyssey, with protagonists no less valiant than Homer’s hero. “It’s a journey that’s an archetype so that anyone can identify with it,” said Garrone, who is best known to international audiences for the hyper-realistic 2008 drama “Gomorrah” and his dark and fantastical “Pinocchio” (2019). “Io Capitano” is also, he said, a “document of contemporary history.” This month alone, over 2,000 people reached European shores by crossing the Mediterranean, while at least 74 died, bringing the number of people who have gone missing in that sea in the last decade to more than 29,000, according to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations agency.

Persons: ”, Matteo Garrone’s, ” Garrone, “, Garrone Organizations: month’s, International Organization for Migration, United Locations: Dakar, Senegal, Sicily, Europe, United Nations

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHow much it really costs to buy a $1 home in ItalyIn the late 2010s, towns around Italy started going viral for selling off crumbling properties for 1 euro, or roughly $1.05. How much does it really cost to buy and renovate a 1-euro home in Italy? And is it worth it? CNBC Make It spoke to several Americans who have bought a 1-euro home in Sicily, Italy.

Organizations: CNBC Locations: Italy, Sicily

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