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History is the key element of our present and future”. How many times have we heard this phrase? Undoubtedly too many but have we ever thought about the actual meaning of it? Nowadays, we tend to forget about the importance of history and what history has left us. For this reason, we must promote and evaluate the wonders of our territories that present a wide range of architectural masterpieces of Byzantine, Norman and Arabic culture. Our contribution consists in guiding you along the itineraries that many Italo-greek monks have followed and the places they have operated and lived in.

These monasteries, centres of liturgical and cultural education and political and economic power, also represent important paths, located near torrents that linked Sicily’s countryside to the Tyrrhenian Sea and played a strategic role in the protection of the territory and the population and the control of the communication routes. In the surroundings, agriculture thrived and villages flourished.

Thanks to our app, we aim to contribute to informing people about these places and the oriental spirituality that has enriched not only the territory but also the history of Sicily by making this island-heart of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe a place of cultural, religious, linguistic, commercial and juridical exchange.

 

Thanks to many curricular and extracurricular activities, the Trimarchi classical lyceum of the educational institute “Caminiti-Trimarchi” commits to researching, promoting, and evaluating the local cultural heritage. The XXI century school aims to direct young people’s worry not only towards the global but also the local set, by strengthening their consciousness of belonging to their territory as humans and inhabitants and consequently offering them the opportunity of promoting and preserving their history to acquaint other contemporary people. The didactic path of class I B of the 2021-2022 school year is dedicated to the “Byzantine Sicily” with a particular deepening on the settlement of Italo-Greek monasticism in the Demone Valley, an area that covered the territories from the current province of Messina to the Agrò and Nisi Valleys and the Nebrodi natural park, both from the ionic and the Tyrrhenian coast.