Time is a child who plays moving his pieces and sovereign power belongs to him.
Eraclito, Fragment 52
The 1930 Targa race was one of the most exciting editions that ever took place on the Madonie. For some time, the expectations were for a fierce battle between the Bugatti cars, the favorites and many times champions on those mountain tracks, and the Alfa Romeo cars, recent stars of the Mille Miglia. The ever-increasing […]
… and to think that they were called P2 1925. L’ALFA – Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili – a young Milanese carmaker born from the bankrupt French Darracq, was gaining greater and greater recognition thanks to extraordinary victories in the world of racing. They were heroic times, made of amazing discoveries and great exploits also due […]
The creators of the Florio “lineage”, brothers Paolo and Ignazio, were born in Calabria, in Bagnara. After the earthquake of 1783, they moved to Palermo and still very young opened a drugstore in Via Materassai as traders of spices, water, quinine, balms, ointments, and colonial goods. It was an attractive and flourishing trade for wise […]
Gabriele D’Annunzio, Alcyone, 1902 and inscription at the base of the Coppa dell’Oltranza. “Zang tumb tumb … words in freedom”! As Filippo Maria Tommaso Marinetti and all the Futurist Group of a hundred years ago declaimed with enthusiasm and eagerness, worshippers of a new fascinating divinity: speed, but what would they say today in front […]
In 2015, in May, I was in Palermo to meet a few friends and organise a shipment from the Madonie. I invited my friends to dinner in Porticello, an old fishing village near Bagheria, and we met at the Faro Verde restaurant, overlooking the sea, where in the heroic days of the “cursa” [race – […]