It’s my turn to be interviewed. Phil Apollo interviews me on my trip to Italy to return to my roots. The tour, designed and executed by Letizia Sinisi of Italy Rooting and Loretta Pompi of BITN was a once in a lifetime trip.
Our fourteen day excursion took us to five regions. Lazio, Molise, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. During the trip was met some of the most wonderful people who treated us like family.
Click here to join out Facebook group The ferry ride from Calabria to Sicily was much quicker than we had anticipated, less than 1/2 hour. So we arrived before our driver, so naturally we had a pastry. It was about a two hour drive from Messina to Cefalu and we arrived just in time for lunch with my good friend Francesco Curione from 007 Italian Records and his friend Andrea Fonti. I interviewed Francesco in
Click here to join out Facebook group The drive from Scilla to Montebello is about an hour and on the way we stopped to view the mountain “ghost town” Pentedattilo, which is derived from the Greek language and means five fingers. You can read the interesting story of two barons here. Our day in Montebello and Fossato turned out to be one of the more special days. Mostly due to my cousin Cinzia Piromallo (
Click here to join out Facebook group The original plan for today was to make a quick late morning stop to the cemetery in Cercola to see where my great-grandfather, Nicola Piromallo was buried. However, at the lunch on June 4th my Zio Nicola (more about that later) told me that he wanted us to visit family in Torre del Greco. So we were able to work that into the schedule. Cercola is about 30
Palazzo Caracciolo Click here to join out Facebook group Day five had us going to Avellino the seat of the Princes of Avellino. I honestly had no idea what to expect. When we arrived in the square of the palazzo ( now used for government offices ) it was breathtaking to see an Italian flag in every window. As we entered through the massive arch, we were greeted by a trumpeter and people dressed in
Click here to join out Facebook group Capracotta is a small but beautiful town in the mountains of Molise and was the ancestral home of my third great grandmother Duchess Capece Piscicelli. The town is about two hours from Naples, and one has to wonder on how long the trip took in a carriage from Naples in the 1800’s. On the way to Capracotta we had an interesting stop where Gianfranco showed us where Garibaldi
Click here to join out Facebook group Our first full day in Naples began with a walking tour of the streets of Naples where my Sorrentino, Princi, Piromallo and Caracciolo lived. Our guide Vincenzo D’Onofrio, was great and explained various landmarks along the way. The current Hotel Caracciolo, on via Carbonara was the home of my Caracciolo ancestors and quite an impressive building inside and out. I could just imagine the parties held there over
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