"Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Condemned to Repeat It." Fascist Party Takes Control in Italy 100 Years After Il Duce Took Power.

@Roundandroundwego Sicily has been conquered by practically every sea-faring people known to history. Nobody gets kicked out; just another layer added. 😜

@dancingtongue not kicked in the last 160 years

@Roundandroundwego @Motherwifenurseandnanny Conquered was a poor choice of words. They have been colonized by a multitude of foreign cultures and assimilated their colonizers, let us say. Traveling the island from its strong Greek heritage in the east & south, to its African in the south & west, to its Roman in the north is like a world tour; you never know when a vestige of Viking or Celt will pop up as well. And the people are the same. My late wife was Sicilian; her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. Her father from outside Palermo with heavy Moorish/Roman heritage; her mother from Catania with heavy Greek heritage.

@dancingtongue my City, Catania, always resembled a layer cake to me, with different styles kind of layered onto each other as empires grew and receeded. To me, it's visual proof that Sicily endured in the long run.

@Roundandroundwego Very true. Good way of putting it.