Terra Amata 2

Sicily
mediterrean Island, belongs to Italy
Terra Amata eng. beloved land

The emigrees are leaving

“Eight days of vacation
now they’re going away
Christmas is over
so is New Years’ day.

Back to the snow
to the fog and the dullness,
their bosses are foreign
their work is tough

Where they’re called,
to insult them, peasant
and folks from Sicily
we’re not good, we’re unpleasant.

They leave with the sun
in a train without sun

... In a train without sun
with hearts that cry:
‘Good bye beautiful Sicilia,

... My land of oranges,
of oranges and of song;
you gave me of your milk
but it’s for your bread that I long’.”
by Ignazio Buttitta
English translation by Arthur V. Dieli

Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Several much smaller islands surrounding it are considered to be part of Sicily.

Sicily is directly adjacent to the Italian region of Calabria, via the Strait of Messina to the east. The early Roman name for Sicily was Trinacria, alluding to its triangular shape. Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory. Citrons, oranges, lemons, olives, olive oil, almonds, and wine are among its other agricultural products.

The island was once a city-state in its own right, and as the Kingdom of Sicily ruled from Palermo over southern Italy, Sicily, and Malta. It later became a part of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons, a kingdom governed from Naples that comprised both the island itself and most of Southern Italy. The Italian unification of 1860 led to the dissolution of this kingdom, and Sicily became an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Italy. Sicily is today an autonomous region of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily is the one that covers the largest land area at 25,708 square kilometres (9,926 sq mi) and currently has just over five million inhabitants.

Sicily has its own unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, cuisine, architecture and language. The Sicilian economy is largely based on agriculture (mainly orange and lemon orchards); this same rural countryside has attracted significant tourism in the modern age as its natural beauty is highly regarded.[3] Sicily also holds importance for archeological and ancient sites such as the Necropolis of Pantalica and the Valley of the Temples.

Sicily is well known as a center of organized Crime. The mafia centers of Naples and Palermo have given rise to mob families far beyond the Sicilian shores- in the US and Other parts of Europe.

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