🔊 Listen Deeply rooted in the hearts of the citizens, the tradition of Delia’s Holy Week rites seems to escape the implacable, corrosive power of time that constantly drags into oblivion our precious folklore heritage. In Delia, the extreme e…

🔊 Listen Once in the old quarter known as “degli Ebrei” we can find the Church of Sant’Antonio Abate, rebuilt between 1740 and 1743 by John Garallo to replace the previous unsafe building.  In the past, during the Saint Anthony day – the Patr…

🔊 Listen In Delia, the church of Santa Maria dell’Itria, whose cult is the most ancient and popular in Sicily, owes its peculiar Byzantine name, “Odigitria”, which means “guide, leader”, to the Madonna worshipped in Constantinople since the 5…

🔊 Listen In 1601, the Carmelites built on the Monserrato hill, next to their monastery, the Church of the Madonna del Carmelo; they had chosen a secluded place to live like hermits between carob and pistachio shrubs, prickly pear plants and a…

🔊 Listen Dedicated to Santa Maria di Loreto, the Mother Church seems to be built on a previous 1300 church dedicated to San Nicola Vescovo di Myra. Probably, the town foundation at the end of 1500 totally cancelled the traces of the previous…

🔊 Listen We have news of the La Grasta mine since mid-1800: until the ’30s of 1900, the solfara has been mined with the archaic method of the “archi, colonne e pasture” , exploiting the labour of the carusi who carried on their backs the mine…