We are very glad to show you one of the most picturesque towns in Sicily, Sciacca, in the province of Agrigento (south of Sicily). This town boasts a long heritage (it has been founded by the ancient Greeks in the 7th century BC but it was inhabited since the Neolithic) and a wide cultural and artistic richness. Sciacca is not only a beautiful town by the sea. It is known as "the museum of 5 senses" because it represents the link between cultural heritage and territorial identity to be enjoyed with all five senses!Guided tour of Sciacca, Sicily: food, culture and art in one of the most picturesque towns in Sicily | September 2, 2020 | Best Things to Do in Sicily - Round Trip Consulting
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“We are very glad to show you one of the most picturesque towns in Sicily, Sciacca, in the province of Agrigento (south of Sicily). This town boasts a long heritage (it has been founded by the ancient Greeks in the 7th century BC but it was inhabited since the Neolithic) and a wide cultural and artistic richness.”
Is there a single town in Europe that isn’t steeped in heritage and cultural and artistic richness... and built upon the bones of serfs?
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Sweet. The Mitchel B-25 is in the top 3 of my favorite aircraft list.
Worldwide, there are more than 81,600 missing U.S. military personnel, including:
72,350 from World War II,
7,550 from the Korean War
1,584 from the Vietnam War
Over 41,000 of the total are presumed lost at sea............
Silly me -- I thought those teams worked until they had achieved identification...
MILAN - An archaeological dig in Sicily has uncovered traces of a lost World War II American medium bomber shot down in 1943, and possible human remains that could lead to identification of five airmen whose bodies were never recovered.
The six-week dig that ended this week was carried out by a team from the Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which locates and identifies missing U.S. military personnel around the world.
The site near Sciacca was identified in 2017 by investigators using historical records and metal detectors.
This year's dig uncovered wreckage “consistent only to a B-25 aircraft,'' said archaeologist Clive Vella, the scientific director of the expedition, contributing to hopes that any confirmed remains would be linked to the missing crew.
“We owe (their) families accurate answers,'' Vella told the Associated Press Thursday.
The North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber with a crew of six was one of 52 air losses with missing personnel in the area during WWII, mostly during 1943 as the Allies pushed into southeastern Sicily.
It was shot down as it targeted a camouflaged German airstrip amid olive groves and pastureland on July 10, 1943. A German military report documented the crash of a U.S. aircraft about two kilometers (just over a mile) from the Sciacca airport, Vella said.
One crew member was located immediately and buried in the town's cemetery. The body was claimed in 1944 by U.S. military officials, but the other five airmen remained missing.
The evidence, which includes possible human bones as well as potential remnants of the aircraft, has been transported to a laboratory in the U.S. for examination.
Those folks do such good work.