Amy Welborn è stata in Sicilia, a Scopello, e su Via Media, il suo blog, ci informa della sua esperienza di viaggio.
Amy è autrice di 17 libri e suoi articoli sono apparsi su Our Sunday Visitor, Commonweal, First Things, Catholic Digest, Liguori.
Dice Amy: “So, get to Palermo, rent the car, drive to Scopello.
What is Scopello? It’s a village - a tiny village on the northwest coast of Sicily. And when I say tiny - I mean tiny. A baglio - former manor - sits on and overlooks a small square.“.
“There are maybe..two..three streets in the village, which now has 45 permanent inhabitants, all engaged, I assume, in the hospitality business. I met the priest coming out of one of the small shops, tried to talk with him (he spoke no English), and then later caught his notice when I was snapping a photo of his discarded Paschal candle (see below). The place seems to be a popular base for people sightseeing in Western Sicily - it was actually fairly noisy at night.”
“So, Scopello - a lovely little village, a good base for excursions, an idyllic place for children to play under the stars, water trickling from the fountain, gelato digesting, parents sitting with glasses of wine talking about what parents all over the world talk about - their fears, hopes and dreams for their children - the greatest hope of all being that this sense of freedom and security they so joyfully and intuitively are living tonight, under a protective canopy of stars, will last, somehow, in some way, for the rest of their lives.“.
Scopello magica !
