Sicily 2006

The Saline south of Mozia

Another week spent on the North West coast of Sicily.
This time our visit coincided with the elections for the Regional Assembly and for the Presidency of Sicily. So I could indulge not only my love for the island,  it's food and culture, but also see something of  the politics of the region.
There has always been a small but important separatist movement in Sicily. In 1946, this was successfuly extinguished by granting the island a significant degree of autonomy. Nothing on the scale of that granted to Catalonia.
There is, however, still a small political movement for Sicilian autonomy, though this hardly constitutes  a  separatist movement.
In addition to the election of the Regional Assembly, which mirrors the national assembly, having a Senate and Chamber of Deputies, they will elect a President.
The complexity of the grouping can be seen on this Wiki page.

This time we visited the area between Trapani and Marsala. Because this is closer to Tunisia than to the mainland, it's known as the "African Coast".
Trapani has one of the most active tourist offices on the island, and it has managed to preserve the salt pans-saline-and even managed to establish establish a museum devoted to its production at Nubia.
There are some pictures of our stay here.

Comments

[Ronnie]

Lovely. Did you cross over to Motya, one of my favourite places for a walk in the idle sun,

[Tony Hatfield]

Ronnie,
Not this time. We've been over to "Whitaker's" island before. It was the saline we wanted to see this year.
But it was a splendid week. Seafood as good as ever.
t