Tommaso and Antonia
Tommaso and Antonia
1. Agricultural Work and Land Leases (Most Common) In the 1800s many Sicilian peasants did not own land. They worked under systems such as: Large estates (latifondi) often covered land that stretched across several towns. If a landowner or estate…
Sambuca’s Saracen Quarter (Quartiere Saraceno) When the Arabs ruled parts of Sicily between 827 and 1091, they introduced a style of town design that was very different from the Roman or Greek grid patterns. In Sambuca, the historic Saracen Quarter…
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