estna done and learns the dramatic history of the island next on dw. now we've got some hot tips for your bucket list in romantic corner track hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot d w. travel off we go ah, ah, the mediterranean was once a major crossroads at the heart of the ancient world. today it has become a barrier separating europe from africa. is there anything left of a past one share? and what do today's distinct cultures have in common?

journalists, xena, l. moss rock, and joe far abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean in search of answers. do you see yourself as of today junior youth with all the rights and responsibilities? how can you afford to fiddle these animals? god help you to join us to get to know the people and their dreams. a mediterranean journey. ah hi. today i'm on the largest island in the mediterranean sicily, as you'll be able to see quite easily behind me. there are a lot of i love about in these hearts. mine is the home of the volcanic mountain.

ah, sicily lies just beyond the coast of to nicea cataneo the islands, 2nd largest city is nestled beneath the mountain. traditionally citrus fates has long been grown in this 1st hail reachin. let's see if i can help with the wind to harvest. if i find myself as an orange plantation, this made it like a lemon, but it's an orange sponge. i'm going to jump right in because i want to make myself useful and i've got the right boots for the job. weighty, big bull, effective, effective, around $1500000.00 tons of citrus, re to produced every year on sicily. organic fall, my men played equal an audi harvest around to 100000 kilos of our inches. no,

just in the province of katana, but in other provinces as well. oh tommy, what a special about our anger. i he out on sicily low especially thought with this region specialties the blood orange. inside the fruit there was this intense red color. okay, that's typical for this region over the area around cataneo and close to aetna. tanya, this is because the mountain causes temperatures to change quickly. they will and the strong difference between day and night colors. the orange is locked, the ok for seek a lunches, easy going on. mm ah, to roll it to your file or your orange us. and what does it mean for palm up here in the region? we've got a rather special distribution channel. then we sell to acquisition groups, or in other words, private, individual school joint forces that you develop

a relationship with the products they're buying. and these are almost always organic, ailed. our farming methods have been exclusively organic since 1992 and my father started it and my brother and i carry on the traditional. we really believe it's the future. ah, if i think it's time for me to try, one of these are inches this. i picked to myself, it smells amazing. it, it's very do say, and sweet and says is delicious. but what about the inevitable bed? sit up 5. you won't believe it, but someone here on sicily has come up with a really innovative way to put them to use catania is more than just an airport or a way to get to the beach. and in december, it can get pretty cold. here. i'm here to meet to enrica arina.

her company orange fiber is based in an old plant. so in the old town. i know it's nice for me to meet you. thank you for a tire is my pleasure. okay, hold of me. i'll show you around about 10 years ago, enrica and her colleague came up with the idea of combining 2 iconic italian products, citrus fruits and fashion. you take the orange and you squeezy, and what you have left is pretty much 50 percent of the original way. so what we thought is a way to transform this byproduct into something meaningful for the fashion industry. and there's a family of materials that are called men made cellulosic fiber and they all contain cellulose. as a common trade, what is more than necessary? so wides part. it's everything that is not water. oh and then from that we extract the st. louis and the cellulose that we extract at look like these pretty much so

it's like paper no. yeah. touch a slide. com look yes, exactly. we saw a lot of things see ask i think observe top or something. yeah. how this is knocked off yet and we have a scar here at the scott, scott: yeah, it looks very amazing on you think orange fiber has already made a name for itself. it supplies fashion companies across the spectrum with a seemingly endless supply of ru material on hand. there's still plenty of scope for development. wow. and left them warm off gabana you can see from here and my decent target that where you can see people are busy. when you work on a place like this was amazing, you, you get more inspiration than i think it's, it's good for your company, your vision, and it's a pleasure to all your fly in and hold meeting with other people. and also just

work by yourself, surrounded by beauty. cataneo is a port city in east in sicily. many residents still depend on fishing for their livelihoods. from enriquez office, it's not far to the puerto would say the fish market. the si fi looks irresistible, but i find myself drawn to something else. to sicilian men singing la la la. la la, bravo! your boy. la more good room. boy john. oh, hello, how to prepare that until tennessee? the grilled artichoke, filled with garlic and parsley. okay. okay. you can just eat it like that.

oh, good. oh, good. oh it's good for the cathedral square with the black love a rock elephant is the heart of the city. all the main shopping straits fan out from here. the piccolo t a r through is also just a short walk away. it traveled. i'm here for a very special meeting with a young man. i notice right here under on all munoz, robert. my name is c f. u. so no go lavetia gala basha moore. i don't know, may nicola? oh e, norma, but what color it betcha? becky mapr tidmore thought a mighty parole bugle me fondly. bass. she. joel, you are julia b. c. the law wrote them on the, on your peer group, but it's yours based. she met, i mean yours. he basically gotten the ok. there seems to be

a lot to talk about here, but what i want to know is who's pulling the strings. i'm going to take a look at allow davi there. wow. if you're thank you for having me. yeah, thank you. are a very talented man. can you tell me more about your work with papa phil de la fort buena, de quinn, all shitty. i was fortunate enough to learn the wonderful arts from my grandparents . it seemed up equal them ever since i'm a small, passionate about my art for god. on my 1st experience on stage, i was as the money until the person that moved to public warming. ah, the history of sicily is pure drama, and few can tell it stories as well as the daily napoli ketani his most famous family of puppeteer. oh oh, he's got ready to be hot. he needs to theater in sicily began around the year 1830

. so you have it flourished until the arrival of cinema and television and the 19th sixty's says the leak when that was the beginning of christ's law that her family survived had already. thanks to the tenacious no 2nd commitment my grandparents da known me k. norwood determined not to give way to the looming monstrosity, but was television had a lot the ladies yawning for generations. local children have grown up planning about the sicilian me of the middle ages. they're very familiar with the heroes and heroines that feature in the legend. oh oh, we have here, children and adults, they come and watch your, your show or not what i meant at the um, what it is. we have a very broad repertoire without from carl engine epics off through the shakespearean tragedies shakes. next week we're presenting a very special text, anti fascist, not on the puppet can truly do anything they will need. the sicilians maintain a special bond with momma aetna then nicknamed the tallest active volcano in europe

. vulcan ologist, you said pe salon, no, takes me up the mountain. we start inc. atanya in glittering sunshine, 3000 meters above sea level. it's a completely different picture but can't erupt. what can happen to the people in catania? and what are the factors on the pants are obviously of the kind of an option. one thing these are very, very low, are to do that option where the lava flow can reach the doubts not anyway. since 20 or whoever barry, these are astonishing gets blue fever option, but the effect is not the saw. stronger for the society. don't affect these that

dash that fall out in there in the towns and surrounding greater but that kind of exposure activity the last few hours. it's quite windy out there and i've had enough. okay. we get out of the colds. you're in the car and drive back down the mountain sheep were headed for the national institute, video, physics, and vulcan, ology to what's known as the warren. here scientists keep a close eye on aetna. it's one of the world's most active volcanoes and pits on a sporadic lava display to remind us of that fact the season, the same total injury was where all the monitor activity of the cc them world council, not just the at the law also and colonel strongly it also about his,

his mc activity in part of the cc, these monitoring 24 hours 7. they, you show me this monitoring thing. but what does movie out here? we are a leica and also with them because with the several part i meters, we are joking sagan's, my sagan's, the life, the behavior of the mouse rumble. it will come. so everything here and the boss to try to photograph it up. got tv to day by day. is it why is that to you here in sicily? cause we're aetna mama if martha. yeah. why? if you born here, when you go open your eyes, the face, the phoenix, i think you spoke it. so we grew up with is a huge mountain torso for the rest of the life. so it's something like a mom with

for me, mama, it now was a very cold experience and i'm glad to be heading back to miles and mediterranean climbs to palermo. to be precise, for my next meeting, i have to travel across the island from the east to its capital city. almost 700000 people live in palomino. for a long time, it was seen as the stronghold of the sicilian mafia until popes of the population started to push back. a 2 man you see behind me a little saw just that building a giovanni 5. corny and paolo boastfully know that the 2 judges supposed organized crime on this island and paid for it with their lie aladdin smith. jim leaving for the son

in the historic center of palermo, i meet key out of wood tro from the anti mafia movement. a deal, pete, so more and more business people are refusing to pay protection money to the mafia and they're making no secret of it. they're putting stickers in their shop windows . mm. a lot of people after they've touch about the mafia. yeah. why, what do you think behind this fascination a lot, i'll see what's so booked up for that or what? yes, unfortunately, that's true. and it is highly detrimental to those who are trying to fight against the mafia every day. you have something very often. this fascination emanates from stories and books and movies of the godfather, for example. but there's nothing charming or glamorous about the mafia for the mafia is violence and harassment. and one of the functional lamarche i, you'll, and saw everybody got fuel on it. but when i did those associations start their

work, okay. and left to another movie association emerged in 2004. but initially, by chance, when a group of university friends decided they wanted to open a bong, she had almost preventing up to carly said, how are we going to deal with the mouth of yours, the who come to demand extortion money from our list? or are we prepared to pay? the answer was clearly know what the supposed to forgot it. that is, was the thought of humans to know a deal, pete. so means farewell pete. so or extortion money key it would show has been involved with the initiative since her student days. now she works as a tour guide showing tourists, the other palomino without the mafia. we meet valentina a shop owner who also refuses to pay the pizza. i father official logo over there and did you ever have problems with the mafia? come to you and say, hey go, i think you have to pay for? no, no, no,

no. we've never had any problems of it is having the logo in the store scares these people off at best bet. so we've never had any issues if from was from won't even on a bill may i will to problem me about putting over janetta sunni killed g r but a fame but i saw new generations opening and running businesses in sicily to day have a different mentality one teapot, and that's why they're not paying all of a seamless up. and fortunately, there's no way of knowing how many, aw, actually paying the number's probably gone down, but that doesn't mean we should be dropping our god. after all, even if it's not extorting any one, the mafia is trying to assert its dominance. in other ways, you cannot, the more it's remarkable how valentina and many other business people in sicily taking a stand against the mafia. tragedies occur almost daily and the poor to spell ammo and across the region as a whole. the mediterranean sea is now the world's deadliest c crossing. last year

alone, almost 1600 people died or went missing, trying to reach europe from africa. the maris palomino nail. luca orlando allows rescue vessels to duck in the city, in defiance of orders from central government. it's no surprise that we're meeting at the motive. i take a cafe and education project for young refugees. i would like to know why i was so open ended and support see watch and all the people who helped the people in the see i mash hold just people know rescreened a human being i gave to the crew. she watch, including a couple other kids in the organization, is she both palermo and,

and she watch sheep, but there is the problem that she go. palermo caused the people in the she cannot be left body. sometimes people talk about migration and problems, but you have other view of the situation with my question. i have been on the view because you know, might event in lucy farmers problem for you or is that my question or not? my problem that was that norfolk system up there pondering. mm hm. okay. i made a little diffusion. we do new born. born in palermo. yes. for that we'll just leave me a little more actually for you. yeah. but for my, for my issue, not a problem. okay. you really for labor, what do we ship? i do what new state you are planning a blind that we call them the 2 but easy to we are proud to leave in this part of the war. and the we believe that meet the radio is not the she is

a continent, is not this, she dividing the people what zip code to men of what julie with the club, just letting the people to be able to meet. so when you come in, alana more, you'll see lat pole. now i'm traveling out of the presence across the island to traces of the islands passed in syracuse. back in antiquity, syracuse was the largest and wealthiest city in the entire mediterranean region. half a 1000000 people lived here, then almost 4 times as many as to day. mm i. today i'm in the syracuse and the oldest out of the town is actually an island. i own this or teja, based on the ancient greek word for quail. this little corner of the world produced a number of things including home exciter and the 1st christian community in year

round of 40 cheerfulness, the cities historic center. to day 3 bridges connected with the rest of syracuse. i had straight for the old town and on the piazza he made day, i discovered the goddess of hunting, diana protect her of syracuse in the greek erupt right next to her, the cathedral of santa maria dela colony. ah monica, it's about an hour's drive from syracuse highlights of this unesco well heritage site or its magnificent pellets. see and the rocks sacred buildings here, the picturesque town of modica is home to the islands oldest chocolate factory. the chocolate is made according to ancient as tech methods. i'm about to try some

myself. and if you're wondering how as tech cocoa beans got here in the 1st place, a pencil to do with the spaniards, he once occupied these islands at the antique dog. jodi albano, utah, i'm due to meet the head of the family business francesco router for a tasting. they've been making chocolate in modica since 18 ac. francesco explains the production process and what makes the chocolate so special ed, you have to do a little select. ah. okay. like this one here too. yeah. it's a volume to put it in the oven. yes. okay. miss with one here. yes. okay, and here i know someone who's unable to resist. good chocolate. my colleague jennifer, he's taking a break from his mediterranean journey to visit me in sicily. oh hey,

what are you doing here? i wanted to surprise you actually. oh, good to see you again. i wanted to find out what you've been up to. yeah. yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. well, i don't want to interrupt you. this looks really interesting. yeah, almost as yeah. you should try the chocolates. i love doing that. oh, rosen suits like news just almost. so. yeah, like you this will share is where mother quicker with no it breaks the seats. and so by the seats from the shells. ok, we make soup quote from us, our 100 percent with sugar and it looks like a grain grainy. if you want to bottle of chocolate, you have to ship into the more lead you can try very luck.

i see here, you have different saver soon. you have a sold, you have monday and you have a ginger. you want to try lemon? yes. yes. yes. so we have here lemon. yeah. wonderful. so 65 percent run. 65 percent is 65 percent coca most. the other part is sugar. do you still in the re they chocolate? yes. and this one is with this is the of the cinema one, the one that i use my he goes, i love this kind of chocolate. there is this man my grandfather. that's all i know . we may be so good. now. it's so good. it's really good. i think it's my favorite to now with we've been on our mediterranean journey for 2 years now, interrupted by a global pandemic. and we're not finished yet. time phillip

back with, i mean, we've experienced so much. what's the price do them of hushed wash actually nothing because it's everywhere i've been, i felt just a little bit at home ever since ohausen. i've always discovered something that i've been familiar with from morocco for a sample, and sometimes from gemini o on to pass. i'm what really impressed me was that all those southern regions, they're often seen as under development. we've discovered an incredible amounts of innovation, and that's been inspiring and encouraging him to script off mood bus. michelle, my son to vacate, have to what stayed with me the most is with all the countries we visited. things are changing, processed as her. during the midst of a searching process on and on, and i even call it a democratization process dimension. people have an incredible yearning to be seen and to be heard on robbie for long enough. the honda can own off batch hutsel finch

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