Word: armerina
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...scene is from Seduced and Abandoned, the uproarious and poignant film satire on Sicily's exalted, exasperating code of honor. Pretty Maria Furnari, 19, might have been the heroine of that movie. She lived a secluded life in Piazza Armerina, a town of 28,000 set in the bleak, sun-baked hills of central Sicily. At home, Maria was so strictly supervised that she could not even go to church alone. But each weekday, Maria traveled 40 miles to and from the University of Catania, where she was working toward a teaching degree. Last spring Maria entered a geography...
...their hearts, everyone knew he was right. The neighbors in Piazza Armerina are raising a defense fund; the Roman Catholic authorities in Catania have refused a church funeral to the murdered philanderer; and the police recorded Furnari's crime as un delitto d'onore (a crime of honor), punishable -if he is found guilty-by a mere three to seven years in jail...
...Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera at the Caracalla Baths during June, July and August. For the first time this year Italians expect thousands of visitors to journey to beautiful but primitive southern Italy, where the lack of hotels has discouraged visits to such scenic spots as Piazza Armerina, Ischia, Positano. To make sunny southern Italy more comfortable, the government has built or renovated more than 100 hotels...
...year-old ruins of a sumptuous villa, near Piazza Armerina in central Sicily, archaeologists have uncovered the finest late-Roman mosaics ever found. The villa was destroyed in a landslide 500 years ago. Buried under 16 to 26 feet of earth and rubble, the floors thus far excavated have turned out to be a treasure of stone and glass picture-carpets...
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