http://www.bestofsicily.com/taormina.htm   The Best of Sicily

http://www.goddessalive.co.uk/current/sicily.html  Goddess worship in Sicily

http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art27.htm  D. H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover

"In such an environment, in an Italy marked by widespread Catholic conservatism and embryonic Fascism, the real life (unmarried) model for Lady Chatterley took up with a Sicilian farmer. Their nude frolic through an olive grove in the pouring Summer rain was one of many experiences that inspired Lawrence. Certain other aspects of the protagonist's personality were likewise based on those of the eccentric lady --anonymous but immortalized. A timeless story, perhaps, whose seeming offense to modesty has been eclipsed by the evolving ideas of more recent times. . . ."