December 17, 2011
Bright red, a rosso the color of Rudolph’s nose, is the leitmotif of the season here in Southeast Sicily.
Political street theater in Catania on December 16, 2011
Ms. Santa was handing out "gifts" of scrolled paper that read "Merry Christmas. Monti's government is gifting you a cut in your pension." (A better kind of protest than throwing molotov cocktails, as in Greece, don't you think?)
Powdered wig, rider and horse at Siracusa's Festival of Santa Lucia, December 13
Santa Lucia, martyred patron saint of Siracusa, December 13
The band at the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Scicli, December 8
Onlooker at Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Scicli, December 8
Altar boy at Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Ragusa Ibla, December 7
Woman going to mass in Modica
Mass-going woman's shoes
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