89 Sicily: The Island of Organized Chaos

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Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

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🗓️ 8 April 2007

⏱️ 53 minutes

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As a crossroads of cultulres for millenia, Sicily is emerging as one of the most vivid islands travelers can visit in Europe. Rick interviews two tour guide friends from Sicily on what makes their island home so distinctive from the rest of Italy and what the island offers to keep visitors content for weeks. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Sparkling in the middle of the Mediterranean sassy spicy Sicily is Italy in the extreme
0:05.8	one of Europe's most animated in vivid islands.
0:08.9	Hi I'm Rick Steves and today I've invited two of my Sicilian friends to tell us all about their home.
0:14.0	You know, live the life day by day without any stress, enjoy the monuments, enjoy the food,
0:18.8	enjoy everything about this.
0:20.2	I always say, go with the flow and welcome in the island of organized chaos.
0:27.0	Tomasso Ponte and Alfio DiMoro are here to help you plan a trip to Sicily with plenty of
0:32.1	L'Dulshevita.
0:33.7	Sicily's complicated past makes it distinct from Italy,
0:37.0	spicier food, a more festive lifestyle,
0:39.3	and people who are Sicilian first and Italian second. Bartering with a shopkeeper, savoring the catch of the day,
0:45.0	or communing with the Sicilian soul in an ornate church.
0:48.0	It's clear the ancient traditions survive vividly in Sicily.
0:53.3	So hang on as we explore Sicily with Alphio and Tomasso in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick
0:58.6	Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly.
1:14.0	I'm Rick Steve's. This is Travel with Rick Steve's.
1:21.0	Today we're going to Sicily. I was going to say Italy, but it's
1:24.3	not really Italy. It's Sicily and we're going to learn why there's a difference. I'm joined
1:28.5	by two friends and fellow tour guides, Tomasso-Pante from Messina in Sicily Sicily and Alfio DiMaro from Catania also in Sicily.
1:37.0	Thanks for joining me.
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