The centre of Sicily is a cereal steppe of bare, rolling clay hills and outcrops of pale rock. It was stripped of its oak woods over millennia, from prehistoric burning to 19th‑century land sales, and it is still ploughed and sown every year.
Artista di strada, Taormina, 2026
Fiat 500 'Jolly' in Taormina
Ghia first made these roofless beach cars in 1958 for yacht-owning Riviera society, with wicker seats so you could sit in a wet swimsuit.
This one belongs to the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace, the former convent where The White Lotus was filmed.
These hand-painted ceramic heads, always made as a pair, a turbaned man and a crowned woman, trace back to a Palermo legend from the era of Moorish rule: a local girl fell for a Moor, discovered he had a wife and children waiting back East, and in a fit of jealousy beheaded him and used his head as a planter for basil. Her neighbours, envious of the flourishing plant, began commissioning ceramic vases in the same likeness, and the tradition stuck. You'll find them all over the island now, often filled with plants and set out on balconies.