Two weeks ago I joined a group of U.S. retailers in Sicily for a tour of the ceramic artists and factories of Caltagirone, Italy‘s “City of Ceramics,” where tin-glazed maiolica and terra cotta ...

In July, a group of U.S. retailers traveled to Sicily to tour the artisans and factories of Caltagirone, Italy’s “City of Ceramics,” where maiolica and terra cotta goods have been produced for ...

The remarkable ancient city of Gela lies on the southern coast of Sicily. Both an agricultural and industrial town, it bears witness to the island’s deep past. Founded around 689 BC on Sicilian ...

We are in a movie, in a horror film,” said a resident of Niscemi, where a widening chasm is threatening the town’s historic center.

Here in Minnesota, it’s been a long, cold winter that does not want to let go. But for a few weeks, more than three dozen readers and I got to escape to an unexpected tropical paradise — Sicily and ...