Laura Bonafede, a teacher from Campobello di Mazara, sentenced to 11 years and 4 months for mafia association.
Letizia Battaglia was one of Italy's most important social documentary photographers, best known for her work exposing Mafia ...
Most tourists come to Italy for the wine and vistas, not to mention the pasta and pizza. Many steer clear of the Triangle of Death – an area near the Sicilian capital, Palermo, that includes the ...
Working with Ola Olsson, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, we recently published a study in the Journal of Economic History, in which we analysed the rise of the Sicilian mafia using a ...
For years locals and holidaymakers feasted on Sicilian gelato at famous parlours in Palermo, unaware that the booming ...
More than a year has sped by since, at Premier Mussolini’s orders, the dread Mafia (or Black Hand organization) was hunted down on the island of Sicily, captured, jailed. For centuries the Mafia ...
he was considered Sicily’s Cosa Nostra top boss even as a fugitive. He was the last of three longtime top-level Mafia bosses who managed to elude capture for decades. Hundreds of police officers ...
The inside of the tomb holding the remains of Paolo Borsellino, a Sicilian magistrate killed by the mafia in a car bomb on July 19, 1992, on Via D'Amelio, Palermo. (Cain Burdeau/Courthouse News ...
During this week’s Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase, Hangar 13 announced Mafia: The Old Country, a prequel that will take the franchise all the way back to 1900s Sicily. Mafia developer Hangar 13 ...
Bagheria has everything a tourist could want, from beaches to history and good food ... remains a stronghold of the Sicilian ...